Culture as objectivated design of human existence is the anthropological definition
Evidence
Culture, in this meaning of the term, is the objectivated design to human existence when “definite men under definite conditions” “appropriate nature’s productions in a form adapted to his own wants” and “stamps that labour as exclusively human.” This is very close to what we might call the “anthropological” definition of culture. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 883 (
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Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
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- Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature (similarity 0.84)
- Culture is defined as lived meanings plus embodied traditions responding to conditions (similarity 0.84)
- Marx treats culture as accumulated human mastery over nature, not mere description (similarity 0.83)
- Cultural studies aims to understand meanings rather than explain or predict behavior (similarity 0.83)
- Culture names the forms, not the content, of social relationships (similarity 0.83)
- Culture operates as signifying practice rather than a fixed way of life (similarity 0.82)
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- Popular culture theory requires conceiving persons as fundamentally cultural beings. (similarity 0.82)
- Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. (similarity 0.82)
- Social science interprets the interpretations that culture makes of life (similarity 0.81)
- Cultural definitions remain incomplete working models that enable imagining (similarity 0.81)
- Culture is the interrelation of all social practices, not one practice. (similarity 0.80)
- For Marx, human labor’s relation to nature is always socially organized and mediated. (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Marxist culture is the objectified human design on existence under definite conditions
#expands(0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 883 - Culture is a process of creating and transforming reality, not an environment.
#complicates(0.60) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 323 - Social structures are objectivated meanings built through inter-subjective exchange
#expands(0.60) - Culture is accumulated productive force transmitted through language and labor
#expands(0.60) - Culture is defined as lived meanings plus embodied traditions responding to conditions
#complicates(0.50) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 191 - Culture as constitutive of practice retains contingency and is never finally determined
#qualifies(0.50) - Cultural studies aims to understand meanings rather than explain or predict behavior
#expands(0.45) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 290 - Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature
#expands(0.40) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881 - Culture is inherently decentered and resists direct linkage to other structures
#complicates(0.40) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 252