What is Culture?

Human culture is ___________________ ?

• partly inherited genetically

• entirely learned

• limited to relatively rich societies with sophisticated technologies

• all of the above

Which of the following statements is true of culture?

• Languages are cultures.

• Archaeologists dig up culture in their excavations.

• Culture is a powerful human tool for survival.

• all of the above

Who first defined culture as "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society?"

• E. B. Tylor

• the author of this tutorial

• Tylor Edwards

• none of the above

A _________________ is a regional, social, or ethnic group that is distinguishable from other groups in a society by the fact that its members share a common identity, food tradition, dialect or language, and other cultural traits that come from their common ancestral background and experience.

• culture

• subculture

• multi-ethnic society

Which of the following things would be cultural universals?

(Think in term of the way "cultural universal" is used in this tutorial.)

• the language that you speak

• the kinds of clothes that you wear

• the specific knowledge that you acquired in school

• none of the above

6. Culture is ____________________ .

• the same thing as society

• limited to humans

• possessed only by males

• none of the above

7. Societies are ____________________ .

• groups of interacting organisms

• only found among humans

• created only by technologically sophisticated peoples such as those in the industrialized nations of the world

• none of the above