Evolution of Culture

From biologic evolution towards expansion and security of life, the advance from instictive bahaviour to learned and freely bahaviuor, patterns may be are acquired
and transmitted from one individual and generation to another, and finally to a system of things and events. The system is called Culture, a man-made environmnet brought up into existence by the ability to symbol. So, we human beings, live within a Cultural System.

Society preeceds Culture, conceived as an interaction of living beings. Man's inmediate prehuman ancestors had societies but they didn't have Culture.As men developed and the assumption of erect posture were other ways in which Culture emerged. Erect posture freed the arms and the hands from their early function of locomotion and made possible an extensive and versatile use of tools. Again tools are related to the growth of the brain.
The introjection of Symboling into primate social life was revolutionary, everything acquired new meaning. There was another dimension from the one to primate- non human- existence ; an axe for example, wasn't anymore just a tool, it was a symbol, a symbol of authority. Mating became marriage and all the relationships between parents and children and brothers and sisters became moral obligations, duties, rights and privileges. Now man knows who is who and incest didn't take place again.
So the Paleolitic Era was converted into the Neolitic Era.

Culture has been considered in general as the possession of all mankind. But there are particular Cultures or Sociocultural Systems. Human beings, like other animal species live in societies and each society possesses Culture.

Society :

Culture possessed by a distinguishable and autonomous group of human beings such as a tribe or a modern nation. Every human Society has its own Sociocultural System, a particular and unique expression of human Culture as a whole. There are some variations among societies; that is, physical habitats and the resources that they offer or language or manufacture and use of tools.
There is a difference between the North and the South. It's said the South is more romantic and deals with the heart and the North is more intelectual and cold and deals with the capacity of rational approaches, the head . We can find this difference in the western and eastern societies. In United states the afroamerican music ( Hip-hop) expresses the difference in the lyrics ( West= social problems and poverty etc. and East=gangters and crime)

Culture and Personality:

The infant of the human species is powerfully influenced by the Culture that surrounds him on all sides. It's powerful enough to hold the sex urge in check and achieve premarital chastity and even voluntary vows of celibacy for life. It can cause a person to die of hunger because some foods are branded unclean by the Culture, there are even people that commit suicide to wipe out a stain of dishonour.
Death is only a concept. Just man knows death, but Culture triumphs over death and offers man eternal life. May be Culture deny satisfactions on the one hand while it fullfills desires on the other. Within this concept, a member of a Society might have profound experiences in different chronological permutations to another one. The experiences are the same, but they happen in different order. For example two young women experience 1.) having a baby 2.) getting married 3.)graduating from school. As personality developement regards, the experience and point of view would be quite different according to the order of events. What's your order? Which is the best? Would Culture determine the results then ?. Of course it will!!