In the teaching of culture, the terms products, practices and
perspectives are used.
The following are 3 different (but similar) definitions and some
examples.
Products consist of
concrete cultural elements of a culture such as literature, foods, tools,
dwellings, and clothing, or, such abstract cultural elements as a system of
laws, an education system, and religions.
Practices refer to the
patterns of behavior accepted within a society, such as forms of address, use
of personal space, rituals, storytelling, sports, and entertainment.
The perspectives of a culture are the worldview,
namely the attitudes, values, and ideas that characterize a particular
society. From perspectives, a culture’s practices and products are derived.
Product: Anything created by the culture for
members of that culture, tangible or intangible, such as food, art, books,
educational system, and laws.
Practices: What people
do, when and where of social interactions, what they do with their products,
etc.
Perspectives: The
attitudes, beliefs, or values of people in a culture.
Culture: The philosophical perspectives, the
behavioral practices, and the products — both
tangible and intangible — of a society:
Perspectives: the world view of a culture — the
attitudes, values, and ideas that
characterize a particular society.
Practices: the patterns of behavior accepted within
a society such as forms of address,
use of personal space, rituals, storytelling, sports, and entertainment.
Products: the concrete cultural elements (e.g.,
literature, foods, tools, dwellings, and
clothing) and abstract cultural elements (e.g., system of laws,
education system, and
religions) of a society (things created by members of a culture, both
tangible and
intangible such as books, tools, foods, laws, music, games)