“CULTURE” – Dictionary Entry

1. Describe the two meanings of the word culture (individual and social).
2. Explain Lèvi-Strauss’s distinction between culture and nature and provide an example of
each.
3. What is the distinction between “high culture” and “popular culture”?
4. Define “cultural relativism”.
5. Think of examples to explain “cultural imperialism”.
6. Give a definition of “community”.
7. What is “interculturalism”?

1. Culture individual: refers to the body of knowledgeand manners acquired.

Social: described the shared customs, values and beliefs.

2. Nature: everything universal in man derives from the order of nature and is
characterized by spontaneity: reproduction (humans, animals)
Culture: everything which is subject to a norm belongs to culture and presents the
attribute of the relative and the particular.

3. High culture includes knowledge, beliefs and morals and popular culture is
characterized for specific group.
4. Cultural relativism is a view of cultures as each having their own standards and as
not subject to being judged, neither right nor wrong just different.
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