“a culture … is a set of mental constructs that may serve to guide or justify conduct between people, and to tell them how to use things … it may also tell them how to get from what is to what should be; that is, in one of its aspects culture is a plan for coping with the world.” (Bailey 1992, as cited in Becher, 1994).
ref:
Bailey, F.G. (1992). Anthropology. In B.R. Clark & G. Neave (Eds.), The Encylopedia of Higher Education. Oxford:Pergamon Press.
Becher, T. (1994). The significance of disciplinary differences. Studies in Higher Education, 19(2), 151-161.
(acknowledgement: Brian Nelson)