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How do you define the term culture and society?

A culture represents the beliefs and practices of a group, while society represents the people who share those beliefs and practices. Neither society nor culture could exist without the other.

What is culture according to Clyde Kluckhohn?

In Anthropology (1881) Tylor made it clear that culture, so defined, is possessed by man alone. Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn cited 164 definitions of culture, ranging from “learned behaviour” to “ideas in the mind,” “a logical construct,” “a statistical fiction,” “a psychic defense mechanism,” and so on.

What is the central component of culture according to Clyde Kluckhohn?

Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn proposed that culture was not simply behaviors, but a product of psychological, social, biological, and material factors (Beldo 2010). Thus began a focus on the meaning of behavior, not just a description of the behavior itself.

Which is the best definition of the word hoariest?

1. Gray or white with or as if with age. 2. Covered with grayish hair or pubescence: hoary leaves. 3. So old as to inspire veneration; ancient. hoar′i·ness n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

What do you mean by the word culture?

“By culture we mean all those historically created designs for living, explicit and implicit, rational, irrational, and nonrational, which exist at any given time as potential guides for the behavior of men.” Kroeber, A.L., & Kluckhohn, C. (1952).

Which is the best description of a culture?

Linton, R. (1945). The Cultural Background of Personality. New York. “A culture is a configuration of learned behaviors and results of behavior whose component elements are shared and transmitted by the members of a particular society” (p. 32). Parson, T. (1949).