Definition of Culture
Kroeber, A.L., & Kluckhohn, C. (1952).
Culture: A critical review of concepts and definitions.
Harvard University Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology
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" Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit,
of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the
distinctive achievements of human groups, including their embodiments in artifacts;
the essential core of culture consists of traditional (i.e. historically derived
and selected) ideas and especially their attached values; culture systems
may, on the one hand, be considered as products of action, and on the other
as conditioning elements of further action."
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