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Culture is divided into two types :
1. Material Culture : Material culture are manmade. These are concrete and tangible in nature. It consists of manufactured objects like clothing, roads, jewellery, computers, airplanes, television, etc.
2. Non-material Culture : Non-material culture refers to the ideas created by human beings. The nature of non-material culture is abstract and intangible. For example, norms, values, signs and symbols, knowledge, beliefs etc. Non-material culture is further divided into cognitive and normative aspects of culture. The material aspect of culture changes very fast.
It is convenient or easy to adapt to new fashion, eating habits, new technology. On the other hand, non-material culture is very difficult to change and accept. Knowledge, ideas, and beliefs are rooted in society and change in these aspects is not easily accepted by the society. A gap between material culture and non-material culture is known as Cultural Lag.