Culture is something we learn as a society. It's important to provide meaning in life and inspire us to feel happy and satisfied.

 

This has led us to the formation of national identity, tolerance towards different cultures and racial equality. However, that's not always the case with an individual living in a unique culture. Some cultural behaviors might be good, while some might not be beneficial. We have seen that groups have embraced some features while shunning others.

 

Understanding human behavior better will help us come up with a more accurate measurement of the benefits or consequences culture provides to people. That would make a world where global cultures match humanity’s diverse needs even more fascinating and rewarding for people who live in them and those who study them.

 

Sociology is fundamentally related to the term Society. Man requires civilization to live, work, and enjoy life. We can describe society as a collection of people who share a shared culture, live in a certain geographical region, and consider themselves cohesive and separate entities. It is the mutual interaction and interrelations of individuals and groups.

 

Human culture gradually develops and transforms into social norms, which is a very important phase in sociology articles. Social standards distinguish human social conduct from those of other animals. The importance of learning in behavior varies between animals and is intimately related to communication mechanisms. Only humans are capable of complex symbolic communication and organizing their behavior around abstract preferences known as values. Norms are the mechanisms through which values are manifested in conduct.

 

The study of humanities and Human culture is also a very important segment of sociology. E.B.Taylor rigorously defined the concept of culture in the 1860s. According to him, culture is some total ideas, beliefs, values, material cultural equipment and non-material aspects that man makes as a member of society. Culture, on the one hand, is an outcome of society; on the other hand, society can survive and perpetuate itself because of the existence of culture. In conclusion, we have to say culture is an instrument by which man exploits the environment and shapes it accordingly.

 

Our social system consists of two or more individuals interacting directly and indirectly in a bounded situation. There may be physical and territorial boundaries but it is appropriate to regard such diverse sets of relationships as small groups, political parties, and whole societies as social systems. Social systems are open systems, exchanging information with, frequently acting with reference to other systems.

 

As humans came together in social groups, they established cultures with moral standards and norms that rewarded individuals with cooperative, prosocial behavior and punished individuals with selfish, antisocial behavior. This gave cooperative individuals survival and reproductive advantage over antisocial individuals and these cooperative individuals were more likely to pass their prosocial, cooperative traits to the next generation. Cooperative individuals in the next generation could then create a culture with a stronger moral code that encourages more cooperative behavior. Culture and human nature coevolved a process that continues today. 

 

Bruce Brodie, author of the book "Where Are We Going?" briefly discussed in his book how cultural evolution has transcended biological evolution, how cultural and biological evolution have coevolved, and how this coevolution has created a more cooperative human nature.