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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Role of culture.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Systems of Kinship

Culture, in Edward B. Tylor's definition (Primitive Culture, 1871), is the "complex whole" of knowledge, belief, art, morals, law and custom acquired as a member of society. Because humans lack fixed instincts for most behaviour, culture acts as social heredity, supplying what biology does not. Its role can be seen at the level of the…

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  • Role for the individual
  • Role for society
  • Critical view: culture and power
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