ulture's language, science, art, religion and philosophy are unique because only human beings transmit the knowledge and skills required to sustain a particular way of life from one generation to another. As Fertig (1996) states, this is achieved through a prolonged period of child-rearing and education. The result of this extended process of enculturation is that the members of a culture gradually internalize certain sets of shared ideas, values and beliefs. These ideas, values and beliefs shape behavior, form a moral underpinning for behavior, and determine cognitive processes and outcomes.
Fertig (1996) states that environmental factors as well as technology help to shape cognitive processes indigenous to a specific culture by creating certain possibilities and setting certain constraints on actions. Social organization is shaped by culture in that culture helps to determine what people tend to do in a given situation. Such factors as the division of labor, the degree of occupational specialization (and th
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