Culture, Sociology and Anthropology: Christian Worldview and Transformation

Culture is a term which is not easily susceptible of definition. In the broadest sense, it means simply the patterned way in which people do together.

If there is to be any common life and corporate action, there must be agreement, spoken or unspoken, about a great many things.

But the term “culture” is not generally used unless the unit concerned is larger than the family, unitary or extended.

Culture holds people together over a span of time.

It is received from the past, but not by any process of natural inheritance, it has to be learned afresh by each generation.