9 Universals of Culture

The things that are used, supplies

• Material Culture

• Language

• Social Organization

• Worldview

How people express themselves, entertainment/free time activities

• Education

• Conflict/warfare

• Arts, Play, & Recreation

• Economic Organization

How people communicate with both words/emotions/motions/body language

• Education

• Social control

• Social Organization

• Language

The way that people are grouped

• Economic Organization

• Social Organization

• Education

• Worldview

How people are managed (laws, rules, government)

• Material

• Conflict/Warfare

• Education

• Social Control

Disagreements between groups of people

• Conflicts/warfare

• Material Culture

• Arts, play, & recreation

• Social Control

Exchange of money and objects/services (trading)

• Material

• Education

• Conflict/warfare

• Economic Organization

What/how people learn and knowledge is passed down

• Social Control

• Education

• Social Organization

• worldview

Beliefs/perspectives about things around them

• Education

• Material

• Economic Organization

• Worldview

Which universal of culture is this?

• material

• arts, play & recreation

• Social control

• Social Organization