Culture

Tylor, 1871
That complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, art, moral, laws, customs and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.

Tylor, E. B.   Primitive culture: researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, art, and custom . 2 vols . London, John Murray 1871:1

Kluckholn, 1951
Patterned ways of thinking, feeling and reacting, acquired and transmitted mainly by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievements of human groups, including their embodiments in artifacts; the essential core of culture consists of traditional (i.e., historically derived and selected) ideas and especially their attached values.

Kluckholn, C. The Study of Culture. In D. Lerner, & H. D. Lasswell (Eds.), The Policy Sciences. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 1951:86

Kroeber, 1952
The historically differentiated and variable mass of customary ways of functioning of human societies

Kroeber, A. L. The Nature of Culture. Chicago, Il: Chicago University Press. 1952:157