| Sociology In Focus: Paul Taylor et al |
"The learned shared behaviour of members of a society is known as culture. Culture is a social blueprint, a guide for living, the way of life of a society". |
| Sociology: Fulcher and Scott (1999) |
"By culture sociologists mean the beliefs of the society and their symbolic representation through its creative activities...Culture can best be discussed by distinguishing between beliefs, which are the content of the culture, and creative activities, which express this content in actions or objects". |
| Sociology: A.Thio (1991) |
"A culture is a design for living or, more precisely, a complex whole consisting of objects, values, and other characteristics that people have acquired as members of society". |
| Sociology: J.Farley (1990) |
 "The
term refers to those things that are shared within a group or society: shared truths (that
is, knowledge and beliefs), shared values. shared rules about behaviour, and material
objects that are shared in the sense that they are widely used or recognised". |
| Sociology: Haralambos and Holborn |
"In order to survive, an infant must learn the skills, knowledge and accepted ways of behaving of the society into which it was born. It must learn a way of life; in sociological terminology, it must learn the culture of its society". |
| Sociology: A.Giddens (1993) |
"Culture consists of the values the members of a given group hold, the norms they follow, and the material goods they create" |