The Cultural Spectrum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23671117 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark E Clark (0000-0002-5660-2153, San Diego State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Pages | 156-181 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Ariadne's Thread (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-20077-1_6 |
| OpenAlex | W2477828758 |
| ISBN | 9781349200771 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Culture! Westerners often use this word to mean a taste for the fine arts, music and other aesthetic matters. But it has a much broader meaning, namely, the shared values, language and traditions that define a particular group of people, be they Australian aborigines, black Americans, or the ancient Greeks. Culture is learned as a child, and as children we each learned from those around us a particular set of rules, beliefs, priorities and expectations that moulded our world into a meaningful whole. That is our culture . It tells us what is correct, expected, normal and right. It explains the world for us. It gives meaning and purpose to our lives. Culture is the socially determined mental framework in which we live. It is our Weltanschauung , our worldview, our abstract conception of reality. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Aesthetics · Art · Cultural artifact · Epistemology · Greeks · Meaning (existential) · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Taste · The arts · Visual arts · Anthropology · Cultural Differences and Values · History · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Scientific and Historical Analyses
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |