Consider culture to be collection of shared ideas held by a society . Culture, above all, learned Assume that most of what patterns what people do not determined by biology. Present biological understand helps little to understand variety of humanity. Much of culture shared through the major medium of communication we humans have- language. Provides adaptive responses for humans.
Culture provides basic working understandings about ones life course.
Guidelines for everyday behavior. Reasons and excuses about doing things. Large scale explanations of difficult things.