material culture

noun Sociology.

the aggregate of physical objects or artifacts used by a society.

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Nearby words

materfamilias, materia alba, materia medica, material, material cause, material culture, material equivalence, material implication, material mode, materialism, materialist

Compare nonmaterial culture.

Origin of material culture

First recorded in 1925–30

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