CULTURE
CULTURE
SOME DEFINITIONS
- 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.
