What is Culture?

Question 1

Raymond Williams

Answer 1

Three definitions of Culture:
1. a general process of intelectual, spiritual and aestetic development
2. a particular way of life, whether of people, a period. a group or huminity in genereál
3. the works and practices of intellectual and expecilly artistic activity

Question 2

easy Williams definition

Answer 2

Culture is a system by which meanings and ideas are expressed not only in art and learning, but also in ordinary Behaviour. Culture means different things to different people

Question 3

Etymology

Answer 3

the tending or cultivation of something

Question 4

Matthew Arnolds

Answer 4

Culture is a study of perfection. In his mind to reach the perfect world, everyone had to be cultured.
there is a right (high culture) and wrong (mass culture) kind of culture.
industrialization has turned us into a little machine and we dont think anymore

Question 5

Arnolds: high culture

Answer 5

Opera, literature, paintings (scolarships and the arts)
The best that has been thought and known

Question 6

Arnolds: mass culture

Answer 6

television and artistic hobbies such as knitting
mozard would be high, eminiem mass
hamlet would be high, soap opera mass
sculpture would be high, knitting mass

Question 7

Clifford

Answer 7

All objects generated by a society or at lest those that are collectible by museums and art gallaries are cultural artifacts. masks, cooking equipment, furniture

Question 8

Macdonald

Answer 8

FolkArt: an expression of the people for themselves, something personal
Mass Culture: is imposed from above, people become passive consumers. People loose their sense of identity and belonging. used to manipulate people, instrument of political domination

Question 9

Hoggart

Answer 9

culture of urban working class was being destroyed by mass-produced culture. mass-entertainments were full of proper appeals but offered nothing of real value to the brain or heart. Culture are all activities, practices and products. He has faith that people would be able to resist mass media.

Question 10

The social definition of Culture

Answer 10

Culture is a particular way of life, which expresses certain meanings and values, not only art and learning but also institutions and ordinary behaviour

Question 11

Culture and Power

Answer 11

has a big role in constructing, sustaining and reproducing structures and relations of power.
The way in which we see the world and other people in it as well as people from other cultures, how we act is influenced by our culture. If our culture sees woman as secondarsy citizens we are going to treat them as such.