CULTURE

noun

MEANING:

The system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviours, and artifacts that the members of society use to cope

with their world and with one another, and that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning.

Culture (Latin: cultura, lit. "cultivation")^[1] is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. However,

the word "culture" is most commonly used in three basic senses:

• Excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities, also known as high culture
• An integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic
•  thought and social learning
• The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization, or
• group