W1: Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics

• Culture  - The way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time. (The Cambridge English Dictionary)
• Culture - complex whole which includes 

  knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, law, custom, acquired by man as a member of society. (E.B. Tylor)
• Society - an organized group of individuals; always made of persons and their groupings. (Ralph Linton)
• "Politics is the collective decision-making or policy-making common to the whole society." (Joyce Mitchell in his book Political Analysis and Public Policy)
• Conceptual Tools - allow to form other concepts , or relate concepts to each other, or even deconstruct old ones and replace with something new.
• Values - a person’s collectivity’s principles or standards of behavior and are considered as judgment of what is 

  important in life.
• Norms - rules that govern social interaction
• Attitudes - feelings towards objects, events, situations, etc.
• Beliefs - something one accepts as true or real.