AN101 Lecture Notes - Feral Child, Stamen, Thick Description
24 Jun 2013
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Raymond williams theory of culture: culture has a wide range of meanings (i. e. inhabit, protect, honor with worship, tending to something, cultivating, etc. ). Culture can refer to artists, philosophers, and intel- lects. The term may also suggest a particular way of life, whether of a people, or a period or a group. Culture can refer to the works and practices of intellectual and artistic activities. Western culture tends to view itself as more advanced as civilized than others. Culture - the system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that the members of society use to cope with their daily world and one another and are transmitted from generation to generation through learning. Ethnocentrism - the opinion that one"s way of life is natural or correct, and reduces the other way of life to a distorted version of one"s own (see euro centrism). Holism - we create culture and culture creates us.
