This document contains a task assignment asking multiple teams to provide their best definitions of culture. It then lists common features found across the teams' definitions, including that culture typically involves shared values, norms, symbols and traditions among a group; is a complex system that is difficult to change; and is transmitted over time through social learning to help create a group identity.

1. Task 1
Feedback from Teams on their ‘Best Definitions’ of Culture
TEAM DEFINITION
Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
Team 4
Team 5
Team 6
Common Features of Above Definitions
Aspects Values, norms, beliefs, disbeliefs, symbols, traditions, common
treasure, customs, way of life, patterns, thinking, attitudes, belonging
Characteristics Systems, shared, mutually-constructed, combinations religious
beliefs. Hard to modify (people need to adapt). Different – not nec
negative. Social phenomenon. Related to religion and history.
Changing.
Participants group
Arrangements
Transmission Learned. Language, evolving over generations. Cultivated, can
integrate into other cultures, get from environment
Raison d’être To create identity. Due to economic, political, environmental
conditions

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