Culture remains based on the area

Running head: CULTURAL VARIATION 1
Cultural Variation
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CULTURAL VARIATION 2
Cultural Variation
Culture remains based on the area an individual are located, for example the music we
listen to, what we eat, friends, our beliefs, family, politics, and economic class are all based on
our surroundings. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the conflict, symbolic
interactionism, and functional approaches elucidate cultural variation.
The Functional Approach proposes that a functional culture attribute has a positive
consequence for the overall society and shall possibly not be adopted unless the trait fits well
with the available culture as well as leads to the society’s well-being. To Functionalists, society
is a system in which each and every parts function-or work together to make society as whole
(Goldberg & Stein, 2018). It is true that societies require culture to exist. The norms (cultural
norms) help in supporting the fluid society’s operation. Cultural values provide guidance to
individuals in making selections. The same way that a society work jointly to achieve the needs
of a society, culture subsists to satisfy the basic needs of the people.
Conflict Approach suggests that prevailing description of justice, truth and beauty can
serve the leaders at the expense of other normal people with culture being made as well as
imposed on the people by the rich or ruling class. It is true that conflict approaches view social
structure mainly as inherently unequal, based on power differentials linked to issues such as age,
gender, class, as well as race. For a conflict theorist, culture remains seen as reinforcing
problems of privilege for particular groups based upon class, sex and so on. Inequalities exist in
each cultural system (Hirsch, 2018). Cultural norms benefit individuals with power and status
while harming other people. Some norms, informal and formal, remain practiced at the expense
of others. Females were not permitted to vote in the US until 1920. Lesbian and Gay couples
have been deprived of the right to marry in many States. Bigotry and racism are extremely much