Identify various characteristics of a culture

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Culture comprises all of the following characteristics:
It is organic and supraorganic. I t depends on people acting, thinking, and feeling to exist, but it outlives individual people and generations. It is overt and covert. Over parts of culture, such as languages and houses, can be observed, but attitudes, philosophies, and spiritual elements are inferred. It is explicit and implicit. Explicit culture can be described by the people who perform the behavior that is a part of it such as playing football. Implicit culture is more difficult to describe objectively such as adults speaking a common language but perhaps not being able to explain objectively its grammar and syntax. It is ideal and manifest. The ideal culture is what people believe their behavior should be; manifest culture is how people really behave.
It is stable and changing. System principles apply to both cultures. Both change and a need for structure and predictability are constants. One should also note that no person adheres to all the values in a given culture, socialization is seldom complete. Within every culture there are distinctive subcultures. As a result, diversity within a culture is common. It is possible to describe basic traditions and standards of a culture because these are less subject to area variation. It is not possible, however, to define a culture precisely, nor to find a person who perfectly represents a given culture.