The first point, transmissibility, serves as a most important criterion for distinguishing
culture from the social system, because culture can be diffused from one social system to
another. Relative to the particular social system it is a “pattern” element which is both
analytically and empirically abstractable from that particular social system. There is
crucially important interdependence between cultural patterns and the other elements of
the social system, but these other elements are not completely “pattern-integrated” with
culture or with each other