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    Culture refers to the shared learned patterns of behavior, beliefs, and symbols that are passed down from generation to generation within human groups. It includes material objects, knowledge, languages, attitudes and values that a group acquires over time. Culture is mutually constructed through social interaction and influences people's perceptions and behaviors in patterned ways. It consists of the accumulated symbolic systems that distinguish one group of people from another.

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    Culture refers to the shared learned patterns of behavior, beliefs, and symbols that are passed down from generation to generation within human groups. It includes material objects, knowledge, languages, attitudes and values that a group acquires over time. Culture is mutually constructed through social interaction and influences people's perceptions and behaviors in patterned ways. It consists of the accumulated symbolic systems that distinguish one group of people from another.

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    Culture refers to the shared learned patterns of behavior, beliefs, and symbols that are passed down from generation to generation within human groups. It includes material objects, knowledge, languages, attitudes and values that a group acquires over time. Culture is mutually constructed through social interaction and influences people's perceptions and behaviors in patterned ways. It consists of the accumulated symbolic systems that distinguish one group of people from another.

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    Culture refers to the shared learned patterns of behavior, beliefs, and symbols that are passed down from generation to generation within human groups. It includes material objects, knowledge, languages, attitudes and values that a group acquires over time. Culture is mutually constructed through social interaction and influences people's perceptions and behaviors in patterned ways. It consists of the accumulated symbolic systems that distinguish one group of people from another.

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    The key takeaways are that culture refers to the learned behaviors, beliefs, and traditions shared by a group of people and passed down over generations.

    The passage defines culture as the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.

    Some components of culture mentioned are language, arts & sciences, thought, spirituality, social activity, and interaction.

     Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs,

    values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial


    relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions
    acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual
    and group striving.
     Culture is the systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of
    people.
     Culture is communication, communication is culture.
     Culture in its broadest sense is cultivated behavior; that is the totality of a
    person's learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, or more
    briefly, behavior through social learning.
     A culture is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values,
    and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that
    are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the
    next.
     Culture is symbolic communication. Some of its symbols include a group's
    skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and motives. The meanings of the symbols
    are learned and deliberately perpetuated in a society through its institutions.
     Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behavior acquired
    and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of human
    groups, including their embodiments in artifacts; the essential core of culture
    consists of traditional ideas and especially their attached values; culture
    systems may, on the one hand, be considered as products of action, on the other
    hand, as conditioning influences upon further action.
     Culture is the sum of total of the learned behavior of a group of people that are
    generally considered to be the tradition of that people and are transmitted from
    generation to generation.
     Culture is a collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members
    of one group or category of people from another.

     Culture:  is a shared, learned, symbolic system of values, beliefs and


    attitudes that shapes and influences perception and behavior -- an abstract
    "mental blueprint" or "mental code."

     Must be studied "indirectly" by studying behavior, customs, material culture


    (artifacts, tools, technology), language, etc.

     1)  Learned.   Process of learning one's culture is called  enculturation.

     2)  Shared by the members of a society.  No "culture of  one."


     3)  Patterned.  People in a society live and think in ways  that form definite
    patterns. 
      
    4)  Mutually constructed through a constant process of social interaction.

     5)  Symbolic.   Culture, language and thought are based on symbols and


    symbolic meanings.

     6)  Arbitrary.   Not based on "natural laws" external to humans, but created by


    humans according to the "whims" of the society.  Example: standards of
    beauty.

     7)  Internalized.   Habitual.   Taken-for-granted.    Perceived as "natural."


    Culture is a definition highly misunderstood and misused, thus the need for an explanation: 

    Culture refers to the following Ways of Life, including but not limited to:

     Language : the oldest human institution and the most sophisticated medium of expression.

     Arts & Sciences : the most advanced and refined forms of human expression.

     Thought : the ways in which people perceive, interpret, and understand the world around
    them.

     Spirituality : the value system transmitted through generations for the inner well-being of
    human beings, expressed through language and actions.

     Social activity : the shared pursuits within a cultural community, demonstrated in a variety
    of festivities and life-celebrating events.

     Interaction : the social aspects of human contact, including the give-and-take of


    socialization, negotiation, protocol, and conventions.

    All of the above collectively define the meaning of Culture. 


     

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