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Culture (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a mechanism for satisfying the needs of individuals (sexual, societal, nutritive).

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Culture (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an integral composed of partly autonomous, partly coordinated institutions. Each culture owes its completeness and self-sufficiency to the fact that it satisfies the whole range of a people's basic, instrumental and integrative needs.

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Culture (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in the widest context of human behavior, an organized system of purposeful activities whose ultimate goal was the satisfaction of human wants.

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Culture (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠total way of life including all the mental, social and physical means which make life run its course. In other words, culture is a system of derived needs and an organized system of purposeful activities.

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Culture (n.) , ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠unlike society (i.e. the relations between people), cannot be analyzed scientifically.

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