Describe how studying culture as a transaction is different from studying culture in structural or geographic terms.
What will be an ideal response?
Studying culture as a transaction focuses on how culture is created symbolically through communication and reinforced through relationships with others. Structural discussions of cultural characteristics treat culture very broadly and categorically. People belong to many cultures and “speak” culture each time they communicate.
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