What is Culture? Part Four: Conventions
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What is Culture? Part Four: Conventions
The most ancient of human questions about our identity and purpose lie—Who are we and what are we here for?—at the heart of many contemporary cultural conflicts. After all, how a society answers these questions, or refuses to answer them, reveals a people’s cultural ethos.
Jens Zimmermann • Incarnational Humanism: A Philosophy of Culture for the Church in the World (Strategic Initiatives in Evangelical Theology)
Cultures reveal differences through following different conventions, or taking different meanings and values from the same conventions.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Civilizations, Art, Networks, Reputation, and the Online Revolution (Best of Edge Series)
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A culture is a set of ideas that cause their holders to behave alike in some ways. By ‘ideas’ I mean any information that can be stored in people’s brains and can affect their behaviour. Thus the shared values of a nation, the ability to communicate in a particular language, the shared knowledge of an academic discipline and the appreciation of a g
... See moreDavid Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Put another way, culture is a set of primarily invisible beliefs that shape our behavior and produce outcomes we either want or don’t want.