Definition 1: A culture, in the anthropological sense, is the set of beliefs, rules of behavior, and customary behaviors maintained, practiced, and transmitted in a given society. Different cultures may be found in a society as a whole or in its segments, for example, in its ethnic groups or social classes.
Definition 2: Culture is any group of people who share experiences, language, and values that permit them to communicate knowledge not shared by those outside the culture.
Definition 3: Culture refers to the learned behaviors, values, norms, and values that are passed from generation to generation within a society.
Definition 4: One useful definition of culture is learned patterns of thought and behavior shared by a social group-Cultural patterns might be considered to have three basic interconnected domains: (1) Infrastructure, the domain of material and economic culture; (2) structure, the domain of social organization, power, and interpersonal relations; (3) the belief system or super structure, the domain of symbols, cognitive models, and ideology.
Definition 5: Culture is the patterned ways in which humans have learned to think about and act in their world. These learned, shared and patterned ways of thinking and acting replicate human social structures.
Definition 6: Culture is defined as the totality of socially transmitted behavioral patterns, arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways, and all other products of human work and thought characteristics of a population or people that guide their world view and decision making.
What concepts seem to be common to all the formal definitions of culture?
How might the differences among the definitions of culture lead to confusion in clinical settings?