Analysis on the Cultural changes happening during life span

Cultural changes happening during the lifespan of a human being is very normal and it depends on the society and the behavior of a human. Culture is an ideology that imposes guidelines on human societies. Culture specifies how people live! This includes ideas of what to eat, how to eat, how to talk and treat other people, how to express emotions or even to control certain social life.  Human life from different societies and in different parts of the world has their own culture, their own ideas of leading a better lifestyle.  

The Sociocultural approach

Culture is an important part of human life that reflects the lifestyle of a human being and a society as well. In human lifespan culture can be imposed by the ancestors, the parents or even social groups in most cases. Culture can even be imposed on various stages of a human lifespan. Culture always plays an important role in the development and also in understanding human life. In a human lifespan when children get to engage themselves in cultural activities, they are being introduced to think and act in a very conventional way. Development is neither determined by the experiences nor the activities, but practicing and improving thinking and acting is something that develops the culture in a human. 

Societal cultural changes in traditional communities 

Cultural changes happening during life span is very much expected and it’s very normal in a human lifespan.  As there are a lot of sources which can eventually manipulate the ideology there will always be a behavioral change in a human. The society which consists of a huge number of people in it will also start to accept the change once the manipulation continues to happen on a large scale. Societal cultural changes in a community can be seen when a large group of people is convinced by the ideology that has been imposed on them. Thinking and acting changes in a human is some of the important changes that happen when a society starts to adopt a new culture. The behavioral changes can be noticed by the activities done by the people in the society. 

Societal cultural changes affecting individual development- 

Culture creates the sense in a human of who they are and how to live life. The moment a human is born cultural influences start to develop the thinking and the actions of a child. A child develops its eating habits, behavioral habits, and most importantly speaking habits. Language is a great example of individual development influenced by the culture. A child develops speaking ability by listening to their parents and then gets influenced by them. This is a great example of how a culture can develop a human lifestyle. A culture also helps a human to develop emotionally, sometimes socially and most importantly physically. Initially a child’s self-identity oddly differs from the societal cultural point of view, but fortunately by educating a child a human society can omit the odds and develop the child’s thinking and acting ability accordingly with the societal cultural views.  

Sources of cultural influence

Cultural influences that affect the meaning of human lifespan can be coming from different sources, such as religion, human race, by gender influence, and most importantly age. These are some of the sources that can impose culture on a human and develop the lifestyle. 

• Religion- Religion can set the most influential cultural value to a human life.  It sets a decisive cultural influence on human life that all the human lifespan a person can carry it as a main culture for self-development as well as the person can also have other cultural influences in life. The variation of human religious belief system makes people follow different cultures around the globe. Despite the fact psychology has not considered religion as a factor of changing human culture, it changes as well as controls most behavioral changes in a human. 
• Race and ethnicity- Throughout the world there many races of human species can be found. Different geological locations have different types of ethnic groups and races that differ them in societal cultural values. The term ethnicity defines groups of people according to their nationality, culture and language.  In cross-cultural research it has been found that every culture has its own belief system, which is a kind of guideline that influences people to react to certain incidents. Not only that, cultural differences can be noticed in their lifestyle as well. The eating habits, treating other people, language and even dresses can be different in different ethnic groups. 

Gender and Age- Sometimes it has been shown in the studies that gender can also influence the cultural activities of human beings. Across the gender there are different types of human behavioral changes that can be found, such as dressing, treating others and also different events in human lifespan can influence a gender based behavioral change. Such as when a woman gives birth to a child but a man does not do that. Events like this change the culture across the gender. Age is one of the factors in changing culture as people change their lifestyle accordingly.

Conclusion

In a human lifespan change of culture is very much expected. It can be different based on religious belief, human race and ethnicity, gender and age.  Culture has been an important part of human life, by developing and influencing people.