Civilization is defined as culture writ large across all major theorists

Evidence

Civilization and culture both refer to the overall way of life of a people, and a civilization is a culture writ large. They both involve the “values, norms, institutions, and modes of thinking to which successive generations in a given society have attached primary importance.” A civilization is, for Braudel, “a space, a ‘cultural area,’ ” “a collection of cultural characteristics and phenomena.” Wallerstein defines it as “a particular concatenation of worldview, customs, structures, and culture (both material culture and high culture) which forms some kind of historical whole and which coexists (if not always simultaneously) with other varieties of this phenomenon.” A civilization is, according to Dawson, the product of “a particular original process of cultural creativity which is the work of a particular people,” while for Durkheim and Mauss, it is “a kind of moral milieu encompassing a certain number of nations, each national culture being only a particular form of the whole.” … Culture is the common theme in virtually every definition of civilization. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 107

Categorization

• DEFINE: Consolidates how Braudel, Wallerstein, Dawson, Durkheim and Mauss, and Spengler each define civilization, all converging on culture.
• XREF: connects to: Civilization is a modern European construction that defines Europeans by excluding their barbarian others — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 33