The 8 themes of history as they pertain to culture

1. "Culture" refers to the socially transmitted behaviors, beliefs, values, traditions, institutions, and ways of living together for a group of people.
2. Concepts such as beliefs, values, institutions, cohesion, diversity, accommodation, adaptation, assimilation, and dissonance.
3. How culture influences the ways in which human groups solve the problems of daily living.
4. That the beliefs, values, and behaviors of a culture form an integrated system that helps shape the activities and ways of life that define a culture.
5. How individuals learn the elements of their culture through interactions with others, and how individuals learn of other cultures through communication and study.
6. That culture may change in response to changing needs, concerns, social, political, and geographic conditions.
7. How people from different cultures develop different values and ways of interpreting experience.
8. That language, behaviors, and beliefs of different cultures can both contribute to and pose barriers to cross-cultural understanding.