CAS AN 101 Lecture 2: Davidson 9.8
8 Sep 2015
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Discussion a1: concept of culture, essay due today by williams talks about how the concept of culture has changed throughout the years. Keywords: meant, including art, history, class, etc. Change in nature meaning to human development occurred during 1700"s: went from cultivating crops to cultivating humans, changed from a verb (doing culture), to a noun (having culture) German: culture went from singular noun to plural: voltgeist: spirit of the people, this plurality means that culture went from rungs on a ladder and a leaderboard of sophistication, to everyone being equal. Cultural only came around in the past 150 years. Third way to define culture is correlated with looking at music, theater, etc: the definition of culture becomes more confusing as you delve into the topic more. Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by humans as members of society (e. b.
