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Define culture
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Define culture (Pls help it’s for a essay)-example-1
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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.
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