SUMMARY FOR ARTICLE

The evaluation of the social impacts of culture: culture, arts and development. in this regard from the social point of view the literature evidences that from long ago there is a considerable body of historical intellectual constructs arguing for the social power of the arts and culture. however catterall claimed these terms are more useful in a heuristic sense than in a substantive sense arguing any transfer to learning near or far is better judged on the veracity of the claimed relationship along with the value of the outcome itself. most of these drivers for challenging creativity are brought about by the aesthetic elements as expressed by wikstrom art has aesthetic value and its crucial purpose is to provide aesthetic experience and to encourage creativity in the viewer wikstrom :. the third challenge revealed in the literature review is the causality of effects showing that although there is a large list of studies presenting the individual and collective social effects produced by cultural activity most of them fail to prove causality: most of the studies reviewed cannot establish causality between arts and culture and the wider societal impacts ace :.