To produce a definition of culture, one can examine the concept in the abstract, that is, explore the concept theoretically from a variety of standpoints and then justify the definition that emerges through deductive logic. Or one can explore how the...

CULTURE. In its most basic sense, culture is that portion or aspect of thought and behavior that is learned and capable of being taught to others. Culture includes customs and worldviews that provide a mental model of reality and a guide for...

There have been many attempts to determine what it means to be human. At one time, biologists suggested that humans were the only tool users. However, many different animals use tools. Some scientists thought humans were the only animals that had...

Culture is one of the basic theoretical terms in the social sciences. In its most general sense within the social sciences, culture refers to the socially inherited body of learning characteristic of human societies. This contrasts with the ordinary...

The standard anthropological representation of ‘a society’ in the functionalist and culturalist traditions is that of an ethnically distinct people, living in accordance with specific institutions and having a particular culture. The ideal...

Although lesser anthropologists may have described themselves as ‘symbolic anthropologists’ and thought of themselves as constituting a’school’, it is quite clear that the three most influential figures in the emergence of...

Culture as a construct in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY might appear to be a rather odd notion. Culture in human terms is difficult precisely to define, but is taken to refer to both the tangible achievements of human societies, as well as the values,...

Nevertheless the development of a notion of culture has from the beginning been driven hard from behind by the intellectual struggle against attempts to explain human behaviour and human variety using purely natural scientific means. It is therefore...

Not all anthropologists of the day were as enthusiastic about the concept of culture as the Boasians. *Radcliffe-Brown’s dismissal of culture as a ‘vague abstraction’ ([1940] 1952:190) was echoed elsewhere in British social...

As a theory of ‘the learning of culture’, socialization has to be differentiated from the theory of cultural conditioning that was assumed by *‘culture and personality’ studies in early cultural anthropology. These studies were...

The word ‘culture’ is probably the single most central concept in twentieth-century anthropology. It has an especially complex history, of which anthropological usage is only one small part. Etymologically it is linked to words like...

Legal culture consists of values and norms concerning the content and operation of law. Reflecting as it does embedded values about socio-economic and political relationships, legal culture constitutes the cognitive environment for legal behaviour....

A culture is a single specie of microorganism that is isolated and grown under controlled conditions. The German bacteriologist Robert Koch first developed culturing techniques in the late 1870s. Following Koch's initial discovery, medical scientists...

A culture is a single species of microorganism that is isolated and grown under controlled conditions. The German bacteriologist Robert Koch first developed culturing techniques in the late 1870s. Following Koch's initial discovery, medical scientists...

Integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behaviour that is both a result of and integral to the human capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations. Culture thus consists of language, ideas, beliefs, customs,...

Culture refers to knowledge, beliefs and attitudes, passed on from one generation to the next, and by definition any society possesses a culture or way of life that members of that society share. In a complex industrial society this transmission...

1. A sociological concept with a number of different meanings, but when used within the framework of adult education it usually refers to the sum total of knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, values, etc of a social group. 2. In common speech, however, it...

The overall environment of a group or an organization committed to learning—it involves: the physical design and layout; the emotional culture with a supportive attitude towards risk; a mental culture which stimulates learning; a macro culture...

The laboratory-based growth and/or enhancement of micro-organisms from a sample in order that they can better be examined, analysed or...

Performing, visual and literary arts are often referred to as cultural...

Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate,") generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance. Different definitions of "culture" reflect...