What is Culture? Part Seven: Summary and Bibliography

John Branch, a marketing professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, refers to culture as the program for everyday living. Like the programming code that makes up an operating system, providing a navigable user experience and running applications, culture is the programming code that informs where we go, what we do, and how we

The literary scholar Raymond Williams called culture “one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.”

What constitutes culture is how everyone agrees to treat each other by being a part of the team or organization. It’s about what’s expected of each other and what you can expect from each other.

The immense diversity of imagined realities that Sapiens invented, and the resulting diversity of behaviour patterns, are the main components of what we call ‘cultures’.

the concept of culture is pretty straightforward. It consists of an evolving set of assumptions that people use to make decisions. And the result of those actions is what shapes the culture.

Behavior: Culture is expressed in and shaped by bodily habits or "liturgies," like going to the shopping mall, checking your phone when you have a spare moment, or sitting down (rather than standing or reclining) to eat. Some behavioral figures are individual; some are shared.