Culture And Culture Chapter 2 Study Guide

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CHAPTER 2 WHAT IS CULTURE? "Culture" prompts from the term "cultivation," signifying that individual has "grown" through knowledge or practice. To be cultured can also mean one is well-informed in the arts, or that one is sophisticated. Webster's New International Dictionary describes culture as "the complex of distinctive attainments, beliefs, traditions the background of [a] racial, religious, or social group." Culture, thus, should be understood as linking more than the values and needs of a cluster of people but the whole "mode of life" of that society. Which means that culture is concerned with more than a group of values, it is a prearrangement of distinctive accomplishments and circumstances. Culture should be understood as an arrangement