Define culture, discuss its effects, and differentiate between material and nonmaterial culture.

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Culture - the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next.

Material Cultue - jewelry, art, buildings, weapons, machines, eating utensils, hairstyles, clothing

Non Material Culture - (symbolic culture), groups way of thinking, beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world and doing its common patterns of behaviors including language, gestures, and other forms of interactions

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