Culture remained an indeterminate site of convergent interests, not a fixed concept.

Evidence

When the idea of culture enters communications research, it emerges as the environment of an organism or a system to be maintained or a power over the subject. Whatever the truth of these views—and there is truth in all of them— culture must first be seen as a set of practices, a mode of human activity, a process whereby reality is created, maintained, and transformed — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 323 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Unrelated ancient legal cultures converged on the same disciplinary restrictions. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 1051; Cultural Studies lacks a single origin and instead constitutes multiple unstable formations; Culture is a process of creating and transforming reality, not an environment. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 323 (+3 more)

Related

• Culture as constitutive of practice retains contingency and is never finally determined (similarity 0.86)
• Cultures represent themselves as fixed but are always changed by history (similarity 0.85)
• Culture is a process of creating and transforming reality, not an environment. (similarity 0.84)
• Culture operates as signifying practice rather than a fixed way of life (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural definitions remain incomplete working models that enable imagining (similarity 0.83)
• Cultures are never fixed or originary but constantly changed by movement and history (similarity 0.82)
• Culture is a constant battlefield with no permanent victories (similarity 0.82)
• Culture as shared meaning-making became democratized rather than elite civilization. (similarity 0.82)
• Cultural Studies has no single origin but many unstable formations. (similarity 0.82)
• Cultural study is permanently displaced because signifying practice eludes direct linkage to social structures (similarity 0.82)
• Cultural Studies was never a unified or stable formation (similarity 0.82)
• Each cultural form is inevitably replaced by its successor (similarity 0.82)
• Traditions are mutable and contested rather than fixed and class-bound (similarity 0.82)
• Culture is the perennial claim of particularity against unreconciled generality. (similarity 0.81)
• Culturalism’s totality reduces to the simple unity of praxis with homologous contradictions. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Culture as constitutive of practice retains contingency and is never finally determined #corroborates (0.80)
• Cultural Studies lacks a single origin and instead constitutes multiple unstable formations #expands (0.75)
• Culture is a process of creating and transforming reality, not an environment. #corroborates (0.70) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 323
• Cultural struggle shifts positions, never staying over the same meaning #exemplifies (0.65)
• Cultures impose dominant, institutionalized preferred readings that are contested but not determined. #complicates (0.50)