Sociology / Unit 1 Soc 0004 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Culture
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The idea
Culture is a group's shared practices, values, and beliefs, covering everything a society produces, including its social rules.
In practice
A bow in one country and a handshake in another both count as a polite greeting — neither written down, both learned, both enforced by other people.
Where people slip
Culture is learned and shared, never inherited biologically.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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