The Concept of Culture

Culture refers to characteristics or traits that are found in all human societies. Culture in anthropology, is the pattern of behavior and thinking that people living in a social groups learn, create and share. Culture distinguishes one human group from others.

 Culture also refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, belief, values, attitude meaning, religion, concept of the universe and material objects, possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generation through individual and group striving. Culture is the system of knowledge by a relative large group of people. Culture is communication and communication is culture.

 Tylor (1871), define culture as the complex whole of man’s acquisition of knowledge which morals, belief, art custom, technologies which are shared and other capabilities acquired by man as a member of the society. The above definitions shows that culture is what distinguish human from animals. Also culture gives the identity of a particular group of people, because through a given people culture, one can easily point out where is fellow man came from, just as pointed out in the word.