Complicating the Concept of Culture

Autor/in	Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M.
Titel	Complicating the Concept of Culture
Quelle	In: Comparative Education, 48 (2012) 4, S.441-454 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0068
DOI	10.1080/03050068.2011.634285
Schlagwörter	Culture; Definitions; Semantics; Global Approach; Attitudes; Differences; Power Structure; Persuasive Discourse; Theory Practice Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kultur; Begriffsbestimmung; Semantik; Globales Denken; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Unterscheiden; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung
Abstract	This essay argues against a simple, reified view of culture as a set of ideas and norms belonging to a group or nation, and considers the implications of a more complicated concept for discussion of world culture and the global/local nexus. Most anthropologists define culture as the making of meaning, with an emphasis on the process itself as contested. It follows that world culture is locally produced in social interaction, and that meanings are then reconstructed in the global/local nexus. Power matters, particularly the hidden power to make resources for meaning making widely available, and to make them attractive and scientifically persuasive. How actors succeed in claiming particular ideas as global and how the locals strategically respond are questions where anthropologists can contribute to understanding the global/local nexus and the exercise of power within the world polity. (As Provided).
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