Culture
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| - | Culture is an abstract concept with a variety of meanings. In anthropology and systems theory, culture is a central and unifying concept. Here culture is defined as the set of learned behaviors and ideas (including beliefs, attitudes, values, customs, and ideals) that are characteristic of a particular society, social group or population. In short, as the attitudes and behavior characteristic of a particular social group. | + | : "Culture is roughly everything we do and monkeys don’t." ~ FitzRoy Richard |
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| + | Culture is an abstract concept with a variety of meanings. In anthropology and systems theory, culture is a central and unifying concept. Here culture is defined as the set of learned behaviors and ideas (including beliefs, attitudes, values, customs, and ideals) that are characteristic of a particular society, social group or population. In short, as the attitudes and behavior characteristic of a particular social group. Anthropologists define it in a broad way as "everything that people have, think, and do as members of a society" (Gary Ferraro and Susan Andreatta in "Cultural Anthropology"). | ||
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| + | [[Cultural Evolution|Cultural evolution]] describes how cultures, [[Civilization|civilizations]] and [[Complex Society|complex societies]] have developed over time. | ||
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* Wikipedia entry for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture culture] | * Wikipedia entry for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture culture] | ||
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| + | [[Category:Evolutionary Systems]] [[Category:Social Systems]] | ||
