Week+3+-+Outlining+Culture

Approaches to "culture" (Framework of culture -- it is defined in terms of some ideas of inclusion and exclusion; it sets boundaries)

1. Culture = "as high art" vs. low art, or lacking in art traditional humanist evaluative great literature transcends time, place, etc. 1. b Popular culture
 * oil painting, opera, (theater)

2. culture of a people (linked place, National Cultures) who can be known through the art they produce comparative but still exclusionary evaluative

3. culture as the pattern of practices, beliefs, and products of a people (anthropological sense) pluralist, relativist explanatory

4. multi/ subcultures: People (ethnicities, class, occupation, )

5. micro-cultures "computer game culture" any group.... however defined, and so we would be long to multiple "cultures"

A. culture as the context (values) or background against which things mean.