The Socialists are given culture jobs.
The rules for sexual behaviour in a given culture appear to be learned during adolescence.
The more completely a given culture is embraced, the more natural will its basic tenets seem to the people involved.
That's unlikely, says Dr Bender, who points out that some aspects of finger counting are widespread across the world, while others vary even within a given culture.
The American fantasy of its supposedly "classless" society has always given "culture" a slightly different meaning than it has in England, where social trajectories were more rigidly defined.
It is indeed difficult to generalize on the national temper of a nation or on the characteristics of a given culture.
One of their features seems to be that they are aimed not at the margins of a given culture but at the middle ground, the consensus, the "way things are".
"We believe that a computer that can read and understand stories, can, if given enough example stories from a given culture, 'reverse engineer' the values tacitly held by the culture that produced them," they write.
It should be noted that there are national and cultural differences in all of the traits and values described above, yet we don't treat individuals from a given culture according to those average differences unless we are prejudiced.
According to the cultural functionalists, including the followers of Malinowski, the only way to explain facts was to define the function that they performed currently in a given culture.
Most peoples of the Southwest engaged in both farming and hunting and gathering; the degree to which a given culture relied upon domesticated or wild foods was primarily a matter of the group's proximity to water.
