Culture and Development Process in Rural Development

Study of anthropology, as well as development, culture is one of the major dimensions of development. Culture is one of the major branches in anthropology and without considering cultural aspects, no development projects can be successful. Culture and development together studies the role of culture on human beings and their development. This is the study of role of culture on development action of human beings in group and vice versa. Culture generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and prominence. Culture is manifested in melody, fiction, image and statuette, cinema and film and other things.

Most of the human behavior comes from learning and communicating with other socialized being. Human beings acquire some characteristics and become social by associations with other people. Culture may be started as embodiment of customs, traditions, spirits, views, feasts, delusions, organizations, etc. Culture consists of mode of life created by man and includes all the arts and artifacts resulting from symbolic interaction among men. A particular culture consists of the mode of life characteristics of a particular society. Culture is a process and involving culture in development implies the shift from goal oriented planning with open ends and branching goals. 

Culture is an essential dimension of development. The core of culture is a system of knowledge and a set of shared ideas. It catalyze local level development through communities using their diverse social, cultural and economic resources. Diversity strategies of human development and capacity building for knowledge based dynamic societies. It helps to support their cultural norms and values for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. Culture includes behavior learned consciously or unconsciously through different formal and informal modes that exert influence directly or indirectly on the individual in a society. Everyone knows that people may specify a norm or rule for proper behavior in particular circumstances in fact not everyone. Every man/society believes that their culture is superior then other’s culture.