Session Summary - Understanding Culture

In this session, you learnt about:

• The meaning and evolution of the word ‘culture.’

• The constituent elements of culture

• The agents of global and Indian cultural change

• The Indian cultural paradox

Now, you should be able to:

• Identify the active and passive agents which influence cultural changes

• Understand the process of social transmission of culture

• Recognise how Indian culture is both homogeneous and heterogeneous and how media can both be a unifying and divisive force.