The community's capital and ways of dealing with the physical environment. It is the interface between humanity and nature. It is comprised of the learned idioms that allow humans to invent, use and teach others about technology. It is as much about beliefs and patterns of interaction as it is about the physical tools themselves.
Dimensions of society
Economic
Political
Institutional
Aesthetic
Conceptual
Economic
The ways in which goods and services are produced, distributed, and consumed
Political
The various ways and means of allocating power, influence, and decision-making
Institutional
The ways people act, react and interact with each other as well as the ways they expect each other to act and interact
Aesthetic
The ideas that people have about what is good or bad, beautiful and ugly
Conceptual
The ideas, also sometimes contradictory, that people have about the nature of the universe around them, their world and the nature of time, matter and behaviors
Beliefs are acquired through our genes but also through our socialization
Conceptual beliefs sometimes thought to be the domain of religion, however it is a wider category and includes beliefs such as how man is in his image
