Culture as the Reflection of a Society: A Sociolinguistics Phenomenon

Abstract

This article revisits traditional definitions of culture and society to establish a sound criticism of existing coherence-based approaches. Culture also means the beliefs, values, behavior, and material objects shared by a particular people, the totality of learned, socially transmitted customs and also both a bridge to our past and a guide to the future By expanding the one-dimensional concept of culture to a four-field-matrix, a likewise contemporary and practical concept of culture is formulated which is likely to supply reasonable answers to disputed questions regarding the formation of cohesion in society along with language which is also a system of signs with standard meanings that allows members of a society to communicate with one another in the perspective of sociolinguistics. It is a cultural heritage and the key to cultural transmission also. It is finally argued that the prevalent diagnosis of multi collectivity should be expanded to a desideratum of radical multi collectivity, the goal of providing increasing individual access to ever more collectives, leading to an increase in both social stability and developmental dynamics.

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