Culture in Animals and Humans

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This paper examines how culture has numerous definitions including beliefs and customs as well as the development of organisms and investigates different theories such as those of Marx and modernism. It looks at how culture determines peoples' behavior and interactions and how compared to humans, animals are much less complex. It shows how culture, once defined, can help us to understand the differences between human and animal societies, seen from the perspective of long-term biological evolution.

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"The Oxford Popular Dictionary (Oxford, 1995) defines culture as a "developed understanding of literature, art, music, etc". However, sociologists study culture in various different terms and also as Raymond Williams argues in Think Sociology, (1998: 111) culture has "a range and overlap of meanings" and therefore difficult to define. Sociologists look at theories in order to make sense of culture such as, Marxism and modernism which will be discussed below."

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