Question

Defines the concept culture in depth

Answer 1

• Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.
• Culture is the systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people.
• Culture is communication, communication is culture.
• Culture in its broadest sense is cultivated behavior; that is the totality of a person's learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, or more briefly, behavior through social learning.
• A culture is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.
• Culture is symbolic communication. Some of its symbols include a group's skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and motives. The meanings of the symbols are learned and deliberately perpetuated in a society through its institutions.
• Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups, including their embodiments in artifacts; the essential core of culture consists of traditional ideas and especially their attached values; culture systems may, on the one hand, be considered as products of action, on the other hand, as conditioning influences upon further action.
• Culture is the sum of total of the learned behavior of a group of people that are generally considered to be the tradition of that people and are transmitted from generation to generation.
• Culture is a collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another.

LAYERS OF CULTURE

People even within the same culture carry several layers of mental programming within themselves. Different layers of culture exist at the following levels:

• The national level: Associated with the nation as a whole.
• The regional level: Associated with ethnic, linguistic, or religious differences that exist within a nation.
• The gender level: Associated with gender differences (female vs. male)
• The generation level: Associated with the differences between grandparents and parents, parents and children.
• The social class level: Associated with educational opportunities and differences in occupation.
• The corporate level: Associated with the particular culture of an organization. Applicable to those who are employed.

The Concept of Culture

There are many different definitions of the word "culture." People often speak of English, Chinese, American-Indian, African-American, or other cultures, and they also sometimes use the world “culture” to suggest a level of sophistication. Additionally, they speak of “high culture,” “low culture,” “popular culture,” and “folk culture.” Moreover, there seems to be a wide range of “cultural politics” associated with these definitions as well.

Many are content to think of “culture” as the total way of life of a people including language, dress, food, music, religion, family structures, attitudes, values, and beliefs. Others, however, consider “culture” to be products (artifacts) such as paintings, architectural structures, musical works, etc. To them, one can find culture at a concert, a museum, or perhaps a tour of a village, city, or stately home.culture, is that which is not nature.” Mitchell is right. “Culture” is an intellectual quagmire; both a way-of-life, and a range of practices. Culture is:

1. the opposite of nature – it makes humans, human,
2. the actual, but sometimes unexamined, patterns and differentiations of a people (way-of-life),
3. the processes by which patterns develop “culture” thereby making “culture,” “culture,”
4. a set of markers that set one people off from another (so that we can identify our group),
5. the way that all these patterns, processes, and markers are represented, thereby producing meaning, and,
6. an indication of a hierarchical ordering of all these processes.

Answer 2

• Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.
• Culture is the systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people.
• Culture is communication, communication is culture.
• Culture in its broadest sense is cultivated behavior; that is the totality of a person's learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, or more briefly, behavior through social learning.
• A culture is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.
• Culture is symbolic communication. Some of its symbols include a group's skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and motives. The meanings of the symbols are learned and deliberately perpetuated in a society through its institutions.
• Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups, including their embodiments in artifacts; the essential core of culture consists of traditional ideas and especially their attached values; culture systems may, on the one hand, be considered as products of action, on the other hand, as conditioning influences upon further action.
• Culture is the sum of total of the learned behavior of a group of people that are generally considered to be the tradition of that people and are transmitted from generation to generation.
• Culture is a collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another.

LAYERS OF CULTURE

People even within the same culture carry several layers of mental programming within themselves. Different layers of culture exist at the following levels:

• The national level: Associated with the nation as a whole.
• The regional level: Associated with ethnic, linguistic, or religious differences that exist within a nation.
• The gender level: Associated with gender differences (female vs. male)
• The generation level: Associated with the differences between grandparents and parents, parents and children.
• The social class level: Associated with educational opportunities and differences in occupation.
• The corporate level: Associated with the particular culture of an organization. Applicable to those who are employed.

The Concept of Culture

There are many different definitions of the word "culture." People often speak of English, Chinese, American-Indian, African-American, or other cultures, and they also sometimes use the world “culture” to suggest a level of sophistication. Additionally, they speak of “high culture,” “low culture,” “popular culture,” and “folk culture.” Moreover, there seems to be a wide range of “cultural politics” associated with these definitions as well.

Many are content to think of “culture” as the total way of life of a people including language, dress, food, music, religion, family structures, attitudes, values, and beliefs. Others, however, consider “culture” to be products (artifacts) such as paintings, architectural structures, musical works, etc. To them, one can find culture at a concert, a museum, or perhaps a tour of a village, city, or stately home.culture, is that which is not nature.” Mitchell is right. “Culture” is an intellectual quagmire; both a way-of-life, and a range of practices. Culture is:

1. the opposite of nature – it makes humans, human,
2. the actual, but sometimes unexamined, patterns and differentiations of a people (way-of-life),
3. the processes by which patterns develop “culture” thereby making “culture,” “culture,”
4. a set of markers that set one people off from another (so that we can identify our group),
5. the way that all these patterns, processes, and markers are represented, thereby producing meaning, and,
6. an indication of a hierarchical ordering of all these processes.