What is culture?

Culture consists of the beliefs, behaviors, objects, and other characteristics common to the members of a particular group or society. Through culture, people and groups define themselves, conform to society's shared values, and contributive to society. Thus, culture includes many societal aspects: language, customs, values, norms, mores, rules, tools, technologies; products, organizations, and institutions.

Following are some important definitions of culture by sociologists

Horton and Hunt definition of culture, “Culture is everything which is socially shared and learned by the members of a society."

Tylor defined "It is that complex whole including beliefs, art, region, values norms, ideas, law, taught, knowledge, custom and other capabilities acquired y a man as a member of a society."

It is the totality of human experience acquired during transmission of heritage  from one generation to another and to learn the ways of learning, eating drinking, behaving, walking, dressing, and working is the culture of man.