culture
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- Created on: 03-04-18 15:27
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- culture
- polysemic
- this means it means lots of different things
- meaning is constantly shifting, so that culture is not something we can objectify, not something that is outside the shifting lives of human beings
- culture might simply be seen as a way of referring to the differences in the ways in which humans make meanings.
- anthropological definition
- a way of life
- Refers
to beliefs, attitudes, and practices that are shared by a particular group
- tempting
to presuppose that cultures are neatly divided up into separate units,
- “cultures” are constantly borrowing, blending and hybridizing. Cultures, in short, are not “pure”.
- tempting
to presuppose that cultures are neatly divided up into separate units,
- Refers
to beliefs, attitudes, and practices that are shared by a particular group
- however there are lots of different definitions within anthroplogy
- a way of life
- Williams
- followed through the development of the term culture, noting that it has been used variously to refer to self-development, to the arts, and to the broader notion of a “way of life”.
- at times frustrated by the complexity of the word culture, its ambiguity and imprecision.
- Stuart Hall
- a
set of “signifying practices”,
- Through which particular signs are given conventional meanings shared by members of a particular group
- here
signifying practices are interdependent
- we
only know what something is though reference to what it is not.
- eg male is not female
- we
only know what something is though reference to what it is not.
- a
set of “signifying practices”,
- Clifford
Geertz
- previously
seen culture as being made up of “webs of significance”
- similar to Hall
- From this perspective, the cultural analyst’s job is one of interpretation
- previously
seen culture as being made up of “webs of significance”
- distinctions
within modern societies. Marker of status
- high culture
- related to art
- modernist painting, like Picasso’s cubism, modernist novels like Joyce’s Ulysses, or Schonberg’s music
- traditional cultural landmarks like Shakespeare
- The whole tradition of European classical music
- shared by a cultural elite.
- Enjoying high culture can also be seen as part of having a good education, thereby distinguishing oneself again from the mass
- related to art
- popular culture
- the
spontaneous cultural practices of the “people”
- said going to the pub on Friday night and having a lot to drink, followed by a curry and football on Saturday.
- some
forms of popular culture come to be seen as high culture over time
- jazz, was low status music when it began, but has since come to be seen as an
expression of high culture.
- an example of the fact that one does not have to have a good education or be from the elites to produce extremely sophisticated art.
- jazz, was low status music when it began, but has since come to be seen as an
expression of high culture.
- the
spontaneous cultural practices of the “people”
- mass culture
- refers
to the products of the “culture industry”, as Adorno and Horkheimer called it.
- mass
produced, “hyped” music like Beyoncé, Adele or One Direction, or mainstream
Hollywood cinema
- This kind of cultural production is very much tied up with making money.
- mass
produced, “hyped” music like Beyoncé, Adele or One Direction, or mainstream
Hollywood cinema
- refers
to the products of the “culture industry”, as Adorno and Horkheimer called it.
- high culture
- polysemic
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