1.

Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people,

encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.
Culture consists of the beliefs, behaviors, objects, and other characteristics common to
the members of a particular group or society. Through culture, people and groups
define themselves, conform to society's shared values, and contribute to society.
2. Tylor in his book, Primitive Culture, published in 1871.  Tylor said that
culture is "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art,
law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by
man as a member of society."  Of course, it is not limited to men. 
Women possess and create it as well. 
Harris
“create a pan-human science of society whose findings can be accepted on logical and evidentiary
grounds by the pan-human community” 
Tischler
Culture. all that human beings learn to do, to use, to produce, to know, and to believe as
they grow to maturity and live out their lives in the social groups to which they belong.

3. Culture can simply be defined as a collection of Behaviors, Norms, Common Practices

and Beliefs held by a group of people that gives them their own identity and makes
them different from other people.

Now, on to the Characteristics, there are several but I’ll just list a-few…

a. Culture is a social phenomenon. It is shared by the members of a society. It is

a means of dealing with the problems of life, i.e., human needs.
b. Culture is learned as well as acquired from the ancestors. It is not inborn and
instinctive like racial characteristics which are genetically transmitted. A
human infant is quite helpless at the time of birth. He is taught to eat, drink,
speak, and walk and to perform all overt actions.
c. Culture is transferable or trans missive. It is transmitted from generation to
generation through the process of communication and interaction or
historically derived.
d. Culture is material or concrete (objects like building, machinery, tools,
implements, ornaments, etc.) and non-material or abstract (things such as
ideas, customs, beliefs, values, superstitions, etc.). Saluting a flag, kissing,
voting and pra3dng are examples of non-material culture.
e. Culture is both super-individual and super-organic. Super-individual simply
means that any culture more than any individual. Its origin, development,
continuity and refinement do not depend on individual’s existence
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6. Norms are the social rules that govern behavior in a community. Norms
can be explicit (such as laws) or implicit (such as codes of polite behavior).
Norms can be difficult to identify because they are so deeply instilled in
members of a given society.
norms and sanctions represent shared understandings that are present in a group or
society. They are the understanding of what is good, proper, appropriate, and right. They
are based on values (what is right and wrong), which tend to be defined or influenced by
law, religion, culture, and numerous other factors.

Law- rules which are enforced by society.  Violations may bring a loss of or reduction in freedom and
possessions.

Mores- customs and  rules of conduct

the traditional customs and ways of behaving that are typical of
a particular (part of) society:
 Fashion, fads, and crazes are considered as short-lived or temporary social
norms. Even if they may have a big impact at a certain period of time, they
usually last for a short time only.