{"id":28,"date":"2011-01-07T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solomonappiah.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/07\/an-attempt-at-defining-culture-part-2\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T19:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T19:34:25","slug":"an-attempt-at-defining-culture-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunesishq.com\/notes\/an-attempt-at-defining-culture-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture PART2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">The last time we defined culture from an etymological standpoint. This time we\u2019ll do it from a textbook standpoint. If the analysis from the former is correct, then it should correlate perfectly with the textbook definitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">We\u2019ll make use of some information from Texas A&amp;M University&#8217;s<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\"> <a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/people.tamu.edu\/~i-choudhury\/culture.html\">website<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Some<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\"> definitions of culture stated <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">there include<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 2cm 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 2cm 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups, including their embodiments in artifacts; the essential core of culture consists of traditional ideas and especially their attached values; culture systems may, on the one hand, be considered as products of action, on the other hand, as conditioning influences upon further action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 2cm 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Culture is the sum of total of the learned behavior of a group of people that are generally considered to be the tradition of that people and are transmitted from generation to generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 2cm 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Culture is a collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Other definitions from other authors include:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 2cm 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Culture is a collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another\u2014Geert Hofstede<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 2cm 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Culture is the shared set of assumptions, values, and beliefs of a group of people by which they organize their common life\u2014Gary Wederspahn<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 2cm 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Culture consists in patterned ways of thinking, feeling and reacting. The essential core of culture consists of traditional ideas and especially their attached values \u2014Clyde Kluckhohn<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 2cm 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Culture consists of concepts, values, and assumptions about life that guide behavior and are widely shared by people\u2014Richard Brislin &amp; Tomoko Yoshida<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 2cm 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Culture is an integrated system of learned behavior patterns that are characteristic of the members of any given society. Culture refers to the total way of life for a particular group of people. It includes [what] a group of people thinks, says, does and makes\u2014its customs, language, material artifacts and shared systems of attitudes and feelings \u2014Robert Kohls<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">A cursory look at all the definitions reveal the use of similar words that show the strong correlation between mental processes and persuasion, and culture. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">In other words, culture is the resulting harvest from consistent cultivation of certain facts, thoughts, and ideas in the human or societal soul (will, mind, emotions, and intellect). This is why we see words like feelings, beliefs, attitudes, values, etc., re-occurring in almost all the definitions. These are all activities and faculties of the soul. The modern phrases used in place of Cicero\u2019s cultivation of the human mind (cultura anima) are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">collective programming of the mind\u2014Hofstede<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">learned behavior patterns\u2014Kohls<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 0px; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">patterned ways of thinking\u2014Kluckhohn<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">We can conclude, therefore, that the textbook definitions are in agreement with that which we derived from the etymology discussion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Again culture is important because how we think, i.e., the going ons in our mind, determines our actions, what we value, what we worship, and how we govern in any segment of society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">Thoughts inform words. Our words influence our actions. Actions consistently practiced become habits, and our habits form our character. The same is true of a nation and or continent. Character and Culture are\u00a0interrelated&#8211;Solomon Appiah<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: black;\">If we have already developed a culture that is immoral and adversarial to positive development and progress, the good news is that culture is not static. It is dynamic. That means it can be changed much like habits can also be changed howbeit difficult and requiring a level of sustained discipline.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time we defined culture from an etymological standpoint. This time we\u2019ll do it from a textbook standpoint. 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