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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Cultural Universals, Eight of the Major Universals Culture - The sum total of the way of living of a group of humans that can be transmitted from generation to generation. These elements of culture can be found in all groups of people. They are not uniform, but they are universal. For example when applited to Canada, Canada can be broken down into the following categories Language * Representation * Assigns meaning to sounds * Communicate in past, present and future, Canada can be broken down into the following categories Social Organization * The way in which people are grouped in a society * Age, sex, families, religion or race, Canada can be broken down into the following categories Food, Clothing, and Shelter * What we eat, how it is prepared, and how we eat it * Different types of allowed food based upon region, religion on nutritional needs * Housing, shelter, how, where, what people live in., Canada can be broken down into the following categories Recreation * Leisure activities * Ways in which we indulge ourselves in enjoyable extra-curricular activities, Canada can be broken down into the following categories Religion * Belief and value system * Concepts of the supernatural * Creation ideas * Death Rituals, Canada can be broken down into the following categories Government * Process of decision making * Enforcement of decisions * Laws, Canada can be broken down into the following categories Art * Any expression created for aesthetics * Paintings, music and linguistics, Canada can be broken down into the following categories Economics * Production, distribution and consumption of goods and services * Division of labor * Monetary units (Buy/Sell/Trade)