Cultural Materialism and Society

Culture encompasses wide range imitation phenomena of human from physical object to abstract. The Physical object conceptualized the material culture like tools and clothes, while The Abstract shows nonmaterial culture like values and beliefs. As a member of society, a human acquired whole habits and capabilities that include knowledge, belief, art, morals, customs, etc. ‗Culture‘ a term given by Edward B. Taylor (an Anthropologist) after that Raymond William merge it into Marx‘s Theory and given a theory named ‗Cultural Materialism‘. Cultural Materialism is a specific theoretical framework for analyzing culture. It is 20th century theory of Raymond Williams provides an explanation for why certain cultural traits emerge and persists. The position of culture is often logical responses to material needs. Culture is as vital as the living in society, and also emphasize ―the way of living life‖. Raymond was given three elements of culture that states Dominant, Residual, and Emergent and states ―We are nothing, but we are everything‖. The Dominant Culture depicted that that holds the power in society and where from the ethics came out for society like Patriarchal society who suppressing the maternal world. The Residual Culture that have a strong sense of old beliefs, customs, faith or belief in myths and superstitious things that will have shape our society with traditional norms like Marriage, prayer to God, traditional rituals that performed in the hypocritical world with material things. The Emergent culture described as the acquiring of new culture and merge it into their own old one like the Western culture merge into the Eastern culture. The knowledge and understanding of these phenomena of culture must essential for the interpretation of a literacy work to emphasize the effect of culture on society are necessary to took an example from post-modern Authors titled- A Passage to India by Edward Morgon Forster. The event of this book shared fully verifies thoughtof Raymond Williams. For centuries, the issue of the relationship between the society and cultures has occupied natural and conventional space. Culture is a concept that confines the social behaviour, customs and norms found in communities as well as the knowledge, law, capabilities, attitudes, belief, habits of individuals in these groups. Culture serves vital function for society by providing sense of belongings or shared identity, norms that mentor behavior stimulate belongings. The shared sense of culture forward who people are, and why they are creating a feeling of connection and unity within a group.