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Definition: the language, beliefs, value, norms, behaviours and even material objects that are passed on from one generation to the next. It focusses on attributes people acquire, not through biological inheritance but by growing up in a distinct community, at a particular moment in time, and bounded by a specific social class. Material culture: jewellery, art, buildings, weapons, machines, eating utensils, hairstyles, clothing, etc. Nonmaterial cultures: ways of thinking, (beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world), and doing (common patterns of behaviour, including language, gestures, and other forms of interaction). Cultural learning depends on the human capacity to use symbols that have no necessary connection to the things they signify. A symbol is anything to which people attach meaning and then use to communicate. They can be gestures, languages, norms, sanctions, folkways and more. Define: the use of one"s body to communicate with others. They are shorthand ways of giving messages without using words.
