Definition of Culture

 
 

 

 

 
  • Culture: http://www.answers.com/culture
    1. The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought.
    2. These patterns, traits, and products considered as the expression of a particular period, class, community, or population: Edwardian culture; Japanese culture; the culture of poverty.
    3. These patterns, traits, and products considered with respect to a particular category, such as a field, subject, or mode of expression: religious culture in the Middle Ages; musical culture; oral culture.
    4. The predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize the functioning of a group or organization.
  • Culture has been defined in a number of ways, but most simply, as the learned and shared behavior of a community of interacting human beings. -- Useem, J., & Useem, R.
  • Culture is a combination of values, beliefs, attitudes, ways of thinking, and patterns of behavior shared by a group of people.