Social Relations & Culture A culture is a kind of social occurrence which is a very extended, multi-performer activity involving social and material modifications by humans to their environment. Human cultures are generally considered very important by their participants: Humans tend to identify themselves largely in relation to the cultures in which they participate. Exactly what sorts of events constitute a human culture is hard to specify, but cultures generally can at least be said to involve the following sorts of activities on the part of many of their participants:

1. the expression of certain characteristic beliefs
2. the following of certain characteristic practices
3. the use (and sometimes, production) of certain characteristic artifacts