Culture is defined as

a. a number of people who share a social goal.
b. rules defining appropriate and inappropriate ways of behaving for specific situations.
c. people who live within defined territorial boundaries and who share common ties.
d. the idea that any given aspect of a particular social trait should be evaluated in terms of its place within the larger social context of which it is a part.
e. the material objects, as well as the patterns for thinking, feeling, and behaving, which are passed from generation to generation among members of a society.


E

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