HUMA 1770 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cultural Relativism, Glocalization, Lingua Franca
26 May 2013
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Culture: symbolic stricture, articulation, and dissemination of meaning with a special emphasis on language, music and images. Excludes politics/economics (because they represent the non-symbolic aspects of life) Culture isn"t just refined, it is broad. Includes ideas, ways of expression, symbolic aspects, but also practical down to earth factors. Too refined and exclusive: should define it more broadly and more inclusively. A way of life that a group adopted. Steger: traditions = symbolic representations of the way in which a country thinks/values. Should b e beyond the refined narrow point of view. Cant understand a nation by looking at one aspect, got to look at all of them and looking at the underlying assumptions. Steger: global culture = americanization: culture is to be defined and understood as american ideals. Study a culture and how its defined. Kipling: perceived other nations in his perspective. Culture should not be defined by an observer"s perspective.
