Something which I implied, quite frequently in my research, was that culture affects creativity. Then one may ask: "what is culture?"

Culture had been defined by many researchers, and is still being defined differently. The reason for the difficulty in agreeing to one definition is that the definition is tagged to one's choice of the preceeding sociological theory. A definition of culture is that culture is the disposition for a human to act. This definition paved the way for an investigation centering on impacts of one's mind/brain on one's behavior. A researcher who buys in to this definition can investigate neural structure or stimulus response behaviors. However, because the theory's assumption is that culture is the product of the mind, I would beg to differ with its proponents.

Instead of writing a book-long discourse on my reasoning, I will quote Vygotsky:

The internalization of cultural forms of behavior involves the reconstruction of psychological activity on the basis of sign operations... system of [human] behavior are culturally constituted and developed to form a new psychological entity. Vygotsky. Mind in Society. Harvard, 1978. pp57.

Vygotsky analyzed the development of signs in human history and in children:

Signs are often the fixation of gestures. Vygotsky. Mind in Society. Harvard, 1978. pp107.

And gestures are the earliest ways both primitive human beings and infants socialized. Since culture is reinforced by languages and languages are formed due to socialization needs, then the foundation for the formation of culture, according to Vygotsky, is social.

A culture is therefore a set of human behaviors that aim to improve social collaboration. Human groups are formed to collaborate on certain tasks. For example, modding communities are formed to create addons for software products. Within this community, culture is a set of acceptable behaviors that optimize this collaborate in relation to some agreed goals. Cultural behaviors are tasks social behaviors. These behaviors are performed in public, not when a person is alone at home. Such behaviors always relate what is acceptable to a certain group of humans in relation to certain goals.

Culture thus defined, therefore, creates the backdrop for social studies of technological groups, for comparison between them, and for future bringing of positive changes to these societies.