Ingredients of Culture

• Manifest are material things (physical objects: cars, fashion, food and artefacts)
• Latent are non material things (knowledge & beliefs)
• Physical Artefacts have cultural meanings and have symbolism to them, a house is not simply a place to live (The Manifest Function)
• Different things have different cultural meanings to different people (The Latent Function)
• Manifest cultural elements are visible and easily identifiable aspects of a culture, such as language, clothing, and food, while latent cultural elements are underlying and less visible aspects, such as beliefs, values, and norms.