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    Culture and Society Defined

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    Culture consists of the beliefs, behaviors, objects, and characteristics shared by members of a group that allow people to define themselves and conform to societal values. It includes aspects like language, customs, values, norms, tools, technologies, organizations, and institutions like family, education, religion, work, and healthcare. Sociologists define society as people who interact and share a common culture, whether based on ethnicity, gender, location, or shared beliefs. Culture and society are intricately related, with culture comprising the objects of a society and society consisting of the people who share a culture.

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    Culture consists of the beliefs, behaviors, objects, and characteristics shared by members of a group that allow people to define themselves and conform to societal values. It includes aspects like language, customs, values, norms, tools, technologies, organizations, and institutions like family, education, religion, work, and healthcare. Sociologists define society as people who interact and share a common culture, whether based on ethnicity, gender, location, or shared beliefs. Culture and society are intricately related, with culture comprising the objects of a society and society consisting of the people who share a culture.

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    Culture consists of the beliefs, behaviors, objects, and characteristics shared by members of a group that allow people to define themselves and conform to societal values. It includes aspects like language, customs, values, norms, tools, technologies, organizations, and institutions like family, education, religion, work, and healthcare. Sociologists define society as people who interact and share a common culture, whether based on ethnicity, gender, location, or shared beliefs. Culture and society are intricately related, with culture comprising the objects of a society and society consisting of the people who share a culture.

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    Culture consists of the beliefs, behaviors, objects, and characteristics shared by members of a group that allow people to define themselves and conform to societal values. It includes aspects like language, customs, values, norms, tools, technologies, organizations, and institutions like family, education, religion, work, and healthcare. Sociologists define society as people who interact and share a common culture, whether based on ethnicity, gender, location, or shared beliefs. Culture and society are intricately related, with culture comprising the objects of a society and society consisting of the people who share a culture.

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    Culture and Society Defined

    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. Thus, culture includes many societal aspects:
    language, customs, values, norms, mores, rules, tools, technologies, products, organizations, and
    institutions. This latter term institution refers to clusters of rules and cultural meanings associated with
    specific social activities. Common institutions are the family, education, religion, work, and health care.

    Popularly speaking, being cultured means being well‐educated, knowledgeable of the arts, stylish, and
    well‐mannered. High culture—generally pursued by the upper class—refers to classical music, theater,
    fine arts, and other sophisticated pursuits. Members of the upper class can pursue high art because they
    have cultural capital, which means the professional credentials, education, knowledge, and verbal and
    social skills necessary to attain the “property, power, and prestige” to “get ahead” socially. Low culture,
    or popular culture—generally pursued by the working and middle classes—refers to sports, movies,
    television sitcoms and soaps, and rock music. Remember that sociologists define culture differently than
    they do cultured, high culture, low culture, and popular culture.

    Sociologists define society as the people who interact in such a way as to share a common culture. The
    cultural bond may be ethnic or racial, based on gender, or due to shared beliefs, values, and activities.
    The term society can also have a geographic meaning and refer to people who share a common culture
    in a particular location. For example, people living in arctic climates developed different cultures from
    those living in desert cultures. In time, a large variety of human cultures arose around the world.

    Culture and society are intricately related. A culture consists of the “objects” of a society, whereas a
    society consists of the people who share a common culture. When the terms culture and society first
    acquired their current meanings, most people in the world worked and lived in small groups in the same
    locale. In today's world of 6 billion people, these terms have lost some of their usefulness because
    increasing numbers of people interact and share resources globally. Still, people tend to use culture and
    society in a more traditional sense: for example, being a part of a “racial culture” within the larger “U.S.
    society.”

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