No society has a culture that is shared by all its members. Discuss.

What is culture? According to Clarke et al "the culture of a group or class is the distinctive way of life of the group or class, the meanings, values and ideas embodied in institutions, in social relations, in systems of beliefs, in mores and customs, in uses of objects and material life." The anthropologist Sir Edward B Taylor defines culture as, "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other …

…facility. Therefore, this tells us that every society has people who goes against there norms of that society and have their own type of deviant subculture. Human beings are guided by thoughts, and we tend to think, feel and aspire towards different things. Therefore if we are examining a society of human beings we will see that it really is impossible to have a culture that is shared by all of the members of society.