Ian Robertson defines culture as "all the shared products of society"
Culture is a natural development of social behaviorism- social life and activities of human beings ( by George Herbert Mead). The evolution of culture is based on intelligence reaction to experience and needs.
Why is it important for Social Science?
Culture is very important to Social Science. The concepts of culture and Social Science are closely related.
Social Science mostly refers to the academic disciplines concerned with society and human nature. A society generally refers to human association and interaction, a group of people who usually share a common culture. And for human nature, Max Weber has been to view it as a consequence of human histories ad experience.
As culture concerns about and relates to both of them.
For example initial stages of humans, behavior were similar to other animals lived in groups. Animals too live in groups and their group behavior and practices form their culture, so as human beings do.
Therefore, among human beings, cultural growth is society growth.
Culture describes what human natures are.
People in society create culture, culture shapes the way people interact and understand the world around them.
Culture is a conscious creation of human rationality, a process for identity of living creatures and cultural evolution raises the identity, which means "the real me", is reflected by nature and the social world.
Actually, human intelligence reacted so strong to experiences and needs that widened cultural status.
It gives an individual a unique identity, a character of their own, which is the cultural values. It acts as a social control where people monitor their own standards and behavior, have a deep impact towards one's life.
They shape an individual's thinking and influence his mindset, which is mores, the essential moral rules or ways for maintaining society.
And eventually forms the personality