PRODUCTS OF HUMAN INTERACTION - COMPONENTS OF SOCIETY

CULTURE:
Sets of traditions, rules, symbols that shape and are enacted as feelings, thoughts, and behaviours of groups of people. Referring primarily to learned behaviour as distinct from that which is given by nature, or biology, culture has been used to designate everything that is humanly produced (habits, beliefs, arts, and artefacts) and passed from one from nature and distinguishes one society from another.
generation to another. In this formulation, culture is distinguished

LANGUAGE:

A system of verbal symbols through which human communicates ideas, feelings and experiences. Through language, These can be accumulated and transmitted across generations. Language is not only a tool, or a means of expression, but it also structures and shapes our experiences of the world and what we see around us.

VALUES:
Preferences - ideas people share about what is good, bad, desirable, undesirable. These are usually very general, abstract, cut across variations in situations.

NORMS:
Concepts and behaviours that constitute the normal. Behavioural rules or standards for social interaction. These often derive from values but also contradict values; sometimes derives from statistical norms but often not. Serve as both guides and criticisms for individual behaviour. Norms establish expectations that shape interaction.