Definitions of Culture

What is culture? Try writing a definition for yourself.
 Now read the definitions below. Which ones do you agree with? Which ones do you disagree with and why?

"Culture used to be so simple. Culture use to mean art, literature, and ideas. And not just any old art, literature, and ideas. Culture was High Art, Great Literature, and Big Ideas. And more particularly, our High Art, Great Literature, and Big Ideas."

"Culture is a collection of beliefs, values and ways of doing things which are typical of a particular community and which are expressed and perpetuated through various codes"

"Culture - a particular way of life which expresses certain meanings and values not only in art and literature, but also in institutions and ordinary behaviour"

"Culture. the best that has been thought and said in the world"

"Culture is the constant process of producing meanings for and from our social experience"

"It's alleged by the media - and our culture - are "dumbing down", abandoning brain for sentiment, rigour for raucousness, standards for commercial success."

"Mass culture is very, very democratic: it absolutely refuses to discriminate against, or between, anything or anybody."

"The cultural order of our day still tells us that Schoenberg is superior to Presley; many people go along with that."

Re-posted from: communicationandculture.co.uk