Culture is the interrelation of all social practices, not one practice.

Evidence

When a schoolboy trips his fellow to make him fall and to get the other boys to laugh, he has certainly engaged in an eminently teleological act, an exploitation of natural occurrences by intellect and will; but one can hardly categorize it under the concept of culture! — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 548 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Herewith is expressed the profound relation between relativity and society, which is the most immediate demonstration of relativity in regard to the material of humanity: society is the supra-singular structure which is nonetheless not abstract. Through this concept historical life is spared the alternatives of having to run either in mere individuals or in abstract generalities. Society is the generality that has, simultaneously, concrete vitality. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 274 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Culture is a process of creating and transforming reality, not an environment. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 323; Culture names the forms, not the content, of social relationships — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 882; Understanding a linguistic practice does not require understanding larger social practices first. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 798 (+7 more)

Related

• Teleological human action alone does not constitute culture (similarity 0.87)
• Society and literary culture can only be studied together (similarity 0.84)
• Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature (similarity 0.83)
• Culture names the forms, not the content, of social relationships (similarity 0.81)
• Culture is accumulated productive force transmitted through language and labor (similarity 0.80)
• Culture remained an indeterminate site of convergent interests, not a fixed concept. (similarity 0.80)
• Society is constituted by communication, not by similarity of customs. (similarity 0.80)
• Culture as constitutive of practice retains contingency and is never finally determined (similarity 0.80)
• Culture is a process of creating and transforming reality, not an environment. (similarity 0.80)
• Culture as objectivated design of human existence is the anthropological definition (similarity 0.79)
• Society names both actual human networks and the abstract forms of sociality (similarity 0.79)
• Art cannot be studied apart from other social activities. (similarity 0.79)
• Meaning in culture emerges only through interaction with other elements (similarity 0.79)
• Popular culture theory requires conceiving persons as fundamentally cultural beings. (similarity 0.79)
• One’s own action is misrepresented when understood through the other’s observable teleology (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Teleological human action alone does not constitute culture #corroborates (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 548
• Culture is defined as lived meanings plus embodied traditions responding to conditions #expands (0.80)
• Society is a concrete generality neither reducible to individuals nor abstract #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 274
• Culture names the forms, not the content, of social relationships #expands (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 882
• Understanding a linguistic practice does not require understanding larger social practices first. #contradicts (0.75) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 798
• Culture is a process of creating and transforming reality, not an environment. #corroborates (0.70) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 323
• Society and literary culture can only be studied together #corroborates (0.70)