Culture is defined as lived meanings plus embodied traditions responding to conditions

Evidence

To space-binding cultures he opposed time-binding cultures: cultures with interests in time—history, continuity, permanence, contraction; whose sym- bols were fiduciary—oral, mythopoetic, religious, ritualistic; and whose com- munities were rooted in place—intimate ties and a shared historical culture. The genius of social policy, he thought, was to serve the demands of both time and space; to use one to prevent the excesses of the other: to use historicism to check the dreams of reason and to use reason to control the passions of memory. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 624 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Culture is accumulated productive force transmitted through language and labor; Tradition is about how elements are articulated, not about persistence of old forms — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1017; Culture as objectivated design of human existence is the anthropological definition (+8 more)

Related

• Culture as objectivated design of human existence is the anthropological definition (similarity 0.85)
• Culture is accumulated productive force transmitted through language and labor (similarity 0.84)
• Time-binding cultures value history, ritual symbols, and rooted community (similarity 0.83)
• Culture operates as signifying practice rather than a fixed way of life (similarity 0.80)
• Cultural studies aims to understand meanings rather than explain or predict behavior (similarity 0.79)
• Social science interprets the interpretations that culture makes of life (similarity 0.78)
• Cultural definitions remain incomplete working models that enable imagining (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Marxist culture is the objectified human design on existence under definite conditions #expands (0.70)
• African thought is the reflected science of lived life grounded in culture #exemplifies (0.65)
• Time-binding cultures value history, ritual symbols, and rooted community #exemplifies (0.60) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 624