1. What is culture?
The word culture, from the Latin colo, -ere, with its root meaning "to cultivate“.
Culture refers to the universal human capacity to classify, and communicate their experiences symbolically.

2. What is culture?
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.

3. What is culture?
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.

4. What is culture?
Values comprise ideas about what in life seems important.
(Fast write) What are the Values in the United States and why?

5. What is culture?
Norms consist of expectations of how people will behave in various situations.
(Fast write) What are the norms in the United states?

6. What is culture?
Institutions are the structures of a society within which values and norms are transmitted.
Fast write) What institution do you go to daily and show values and social norms?

7. What is culture?
Artifacts—things, or aspects of material culture derive from a culture's values and norms.
Fast write) What artifact in your life describes you?

8. The 9 Universals of Culture
What is culture?
The 9 Universals of Culture
Cultural universals are the elements, patterns, traits, or institutions that are common to all human cultures on our planet

9. What is culture? Material Culture • Food
• Clothing and Adornment of the Body
• Tools and Weapons
• Housing and Shelter
• Transportation
• Personal Possessions
• Household Articles

10. Arts, Play, and Recreation
What is culture?
Arts, Play, and Recreation
• Forms of the Arts, Play, and Recreation
• Folk Arts and Fine Arts
• Standards of Beauty and Taste

11. What is culture? Social Organization • Societies • Families
• Kinship Systems

12. Language and Non-Verbal Communication
What is culture?
Language and Non-Verbal Communication
• Nonverbal Communication
• Language
• Other ways of Representing

13. What is culture? Social Control
• Systems and Governmental Institutions
Rewards and Punishments

14. What is culture? Conflict and Warfare • Kinds of Conflict
• Kinds of Warfare
• Defence Systems
• Practices of Warfare
• Conflict
• Conflict Resolution

15. What is culture?
Education
• Informal Education
• Formal Education

16. What is culture? Worldview • Belief Systems • Religion • Spirituality
• Values

17. Economic Organization
What is culture?
Economic Organization
• Systems of Trade and Exchange
• Producing and Manufacturing
• Property
• Division of Labor
• Standard of Living

18. What is culture?
Today you have learned the 4 basic elements of culture and the 9 universals of culture.

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