ORIGINS OF CULTURE

According to Schwartz 1992 on line defines culture as a set of shared attitude,value,goals,and practices that characterizes an institution or organization. Taylor 1870 further defines culture as the integrated  pattern of human knowledge,belief and behavior that   depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.When we distill these two definitions it can be said that culture is a set of paradigms that govern a person's life ,weather self determined or received  from others.

Regarding the origins of culture it is not known with certainty but there are various theories that can help us understand its origins, for the purpose of clarity this discourse will discuss only one  theories just to give an insight of the obscure beginnings of culture. First ,it becomes clear that society exits only in the projections of its members,that is in their action orientations and expectations and( Parsons 1953:52-53).Culture become the pure and free creation of mind Sheldon 1951:39) this implies that culture is subjective.Parson definition also implies that the actors depend on the use of shared symbols in order to co ordinate, in an order and stable way , their motivations,cognition,and need-dispositions,and consequently,their attitude concerning their social and nonsocial factional situations.

One is tempted to say culture is some thing that originates in the DNA of human being some they can do it unconsciously .Human beings are nothing with out culture because it defines who they are ,if culture was taken away from the people and treated as a necessity human race would be vanity.