concept of culture
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconceptandculture
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concept
noun[C]
uk/ˈkɒn.sept/us/ˈkɑːn.sept/
a principle ...
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culture
noun
uk/ˈkʌl.tʃər/us/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ/
the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a ...
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(Definition ofconceptandculturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A traditional tripartiteconceptofcultureis employed, distinguishing technology, social organization, and ideology.
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But philosophically, this holisticconceptofculturehas an important corollary.
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He thus covered the three main divisions of the holisticconceptofculture.
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The broadly conceivedconceptofculturestill attracts much attention.
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Such an approach, however, is based on a somewhat dated understanding of theconceptofculture.
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The vagueness of theconceptofcultureand the difficulties in linking cultural characteristics to real events are numerous.
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Theconceptofcultureis one of the more elusive concepts in the social sciences.
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Of course not, at least not according to my very democraticconceptofculture.
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This approach leads toward a semioticconceptofcultureas an interlocked system of construable signs.
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However, using theconceptofculturein such a context would be purely metaphorical.
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Within these new museological trends, however, an old and more general rift between proponents of a populist (pragmatist) and an elitist (purist)conceptofculturecontinues.
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To be relevant to theconceptofculture, as a minimum, mechanisms must be both social (independent individual learning is excluded) and have the effect of maintaining or increasing similarity.
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Theconceptofculturewas specifically formulated to describe group differences in human behavior, and, thus, behavioral traditions of humans provide the proto-typical case of cultural transmission.
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Sherman'sconceptofcultureis strictly utilitarian : if it does not help you to move upward, you should change it.
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Theconceptofculturebecomes dangerous when it is used to draw those lines of demarcation, presenting them as fixed rather than infinitely fluid and dependent on standpoint and perspective.
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On the one hand, there is a danger in using theconceptofculturein a way that assumes an inevitable similarity between people who are different in important ways.
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He found other examples of the porousconceptofculturethat illustrate the problem of discussing the relations between two such large abstractions as technology and culture.
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Similarly, the discipline widens theconceptofculture.
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During the 1990s theconceptofculture-led regeneration gained ground.
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In addition, he has written on such topics as postmodernism, governmentality, risk, moral panics, and theconceptofculture.
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