Monday, October 6, 2008

Definitions of "culture"

I said I would post the definitions of culture I read in the audioconference last night. Here they are:

"the collective mental programming of a people in an environment" - Geert Hofstede, 1980

"everything one must learn in order to behave in ways that are recognizable, predictable, and understandable to a group of people" - Valentine, 1968

"a common set of previously assimilated master plans, from which . . . an infinite number of individual patterns directly applicable to specifric situations are generated" -Pierre Bordieu, 1976

If you want to cite them in your final paper, give the author and date I've mentioned, and then say "cited by Lynne Baab in audioconference 7." I don't have references for them.

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