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Whether people eat termite eggs, fish eggs, or chicken eggs, societies always have a culture, and culture is always linked to a society. Culture provides guidelines for behaviors and actions at each level of society, from the global system to the individual family. The social world model at the beginning of the chapter, with its concentric circles, represents the micro to macro levels of society. Smaller social units such as a school operate within a larger community that is also part of a region and the country. The culture determines what takes place in each of these units. There is a social unit—or structural “hardware”—and a culture—or “software”—at each level.