LAUSR

Shared learned meanings and behaviors transmitted across generations within social activity contexts for purposes of promoting individual/societal adaptation, adjustment, growth, and development. Culture has both external (i.e. artifacts, roles, activity contexts, institutions) and internal (i.e. values, beliefs, attitudes, activity contexts, patterns of consciousness, personality styles, epistemology) representations. The shared meanings and behaviors are subject to continuous change and modification in response to changing internal and external circumstances. Cultures can arise and function in brief and immediate temporal settings (e.g. [the] culture of faculty meetings) and also long-term settings (e.g. ethno-cultural ways of life). (p. 6)