1. CULTURECULTURE
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2.  The wordThe word cultureculture, from the, from the
LatinLatin colo, -erecolo, -ere, with its root, with its root
meaning "to cultivate“.meaning "to cultivate“.
 Culture refers to the universal humanCulture refers to the universal human
capacity to classify, and communicatecapacity to classify, and communicate
their experiencestheir experiences symbolicallysymbolically..

3. Culture - has been called "the way of life for an entire society." As
such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals,
norms of behaviors and systems of belief.

4. A common way of understanding culture is to see it as consisting
of four elements that are "passed on from generation to
generation by learning alone":
values
norms
institutions
Artifacts.

5. Values comprise ideas about what in life seems important.

6. Norms consist of expectations of how people will behave in
various situations.

7. Institutions are the structures of a society within which values &
norms are transmitted.

8. Artifacts—things, or aspects of material culture derive from a culture's
values and norms.