Cambridge English Dictionary states that culture is, "the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time." Terror Management Theory posits that culture is a series of activities and worldviews that provide humans with the illusion of being individuals of value in a world meaningraising themselves above the merely physical aspects of existence, in order to deny the animal insignificance and death that Homo Sapiens became aware of when they acquired a larger brain.

As a defining aspect of what it means to be human, culture is a central concept in anthropology, encompassing the range of phenomena that are transmitted through social learning in human societies. The word is used in a general sense as the evolved ability to categorize and represent experiences with symbols and to act imaginatively and creatively. This ability arose with the evolution of behavioral modernity in humans around 50,000 years ago.[citation needed] This capacity is often thought to be unique to humans, although some other species have demonstrated similar, though much less complex abilities for social learning. It is also used to denote the complex networks of practices and accumulated knowledge and ideas that is transmitted through social interaction and exist in specific human groups, or cultures, using the plural form. Some aspects of human behavior, such as language, social practices such as kinship, gender and marriage, expressive forms such as art, music, dance, ritual, religion, and technologies such as cooking, shelter, clothing are said to be cultural universals, found in all human societies. The concept material culture covers the physical expressions of culture, such as technology, architecture and art, whereas the immaterial aspects of culture such as principles of social organization (including, practices of political organization and social institutions), mythology, philosophy, literature (both written and oral), and science make up the intangible cultural heritage of a society.

1. What is Cambridge English Dictionary describing?
2. Culture is a central concept in what?
3. What kind of learning is anthropology interested in?
4. When did creativity begin to be seen in humans?
5. What is an example of a social practice?
6. Is music an expressive form?
7. Is art an expressive form?
8. Are there other examples?
9. What is an example of a technology?
10. Any other?
11. Are these found in every human society?
12. What is an example of a material aspect of culture?
13. What about immaterial aspects?
14. What theory says that culture is an illusion?
15. What species of human does the theory mention?
16. What kind of brain did they have?
17. Does culture involve a specific time?
18. What illusion does culture provide?
19. Individuals of what?
20. Are cultural universals found in all societies?
1. culture
2. anthropology
3. social learning
4. maybe around 50,000 years ago
5. kinship, gender and marriage
6. yes
7. yes
8. yes
9. cooking
10. Yes, shelter, clothing
11. yes
12. technology
13. mythology
14. Terror Management Theory
15. Homo Sapiens
16. larger
17. yes
18. being individual
19. value
20. yes