Culture and Civilization with its Behavioral Aspects

Civilization includes all the materialistic developments of the world which are the products of human advancements. It includes material or concrete things used by human being such as house, household commodities, and different kind of apparatus, instruments, weapons, pots and any means of conveniences. Both civilization and culture are changing but the rate of change of civilization is much faster than culture. Civilization, the comfortable condition of modern society, passes from one society to another easily but culture, the value, attitude and beliefs of a society takes a long time to change. Civilization has precise standard of measurement but not culture. The products of civilization are more easily communicated than those of cultures. Culture and civilization are interdependent to each other.

Behavior of man reflects his culture as culture has great influence in humanoid beings life. Culture includes performance learned intentionally or unintentionally through different formal and informal modes – that exert influence directly or indirectly on the individual in a society. Culture is one particular kind of observable behavior which behavior is the rest of observable behavior. We should study culture in behavior, not in of it. Culture as a constitutive part of development. Culture factors influence economic behavior. Both culture and civilization are man-made. One is for ease and luxury and other is for his pleasure and delight.

Development today does not refer to the economic development, but the overall development of society and its people. People cannot exist in isolation, they live in groups, compete with each other and interact in many ways. There are also different symbols which reflect the development of individuals and civilization. The cryptograms may be different in different civilization but there are different symbols which are used to reflect different aspects of society. Culture can help a country in economic development. The cultural factors influenced by religion are the principle obstacles to modernization.