Definitions of Culture Flashcards
(6 cards)
1
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The best that has been thought and said in the world
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Matthew Arnold/Leavinism.1889
2
Q
That complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society
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Classical anthropological definition of culture. Edward B. Tylor. Unilineal Evolution. 1871
3
Q
a whole way of life
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Raymond Williams. 1958
4
Q
forms of signification that circulate within a society
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Raymond Williams. 1958
5
Q
web of significance that man himself has spun
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Clifford Geertz 1973.
6
Q
Cultures consist of the maps of meaning, the frameworks of intelligibility, the things which allow us to make sense of a world which exists, but is ambiguous as to its meaning until we’ve made sense of it.
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Stuart Hall. 1997
