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What Is Culture 2
What Is Culture 2
Standard 10.1
The word culture, Culture refers to the
from the Latin colo, - universal human
ere, with its root capacity to classify,
meaning "to and communicate
cultivate“. their experiences
symbolically.
What is culture?
Standard 10.1
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.
What is culture?
Standard 10.1
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.
What is culture?
Standard 10.1
Values comprise ideas about what in life
seems important.