Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature

Evidence

These forms are frameworks for the creative life which, however, soon transcends them. They should also house the imitative life, for which, in the final analysis, there is no space left. They acquire fixed identities, a logic and lawfulness of their own; this new rigidity inevitably places them at a distance from the spiritual dynamic which created them and which makes them independent. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 837 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Culture is accumulated productive force transmitted through language and labor; Because man creates society, the colonial structure’s prognosis lies in human hands.; Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. (+33 more)

Related

• Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. (similarity 0.88)
• Culture is accumulated productive force transmitted through language and labor (similarity 0.86)
• Because man creates society, the colonial structure’s prognosis lies in human hands. (similarity 0.85)
• Culture as objectivated design of human existence is the anthropological definition (similarity 0.85)
• Culture is inherently decentered and resists direct linkage to other structures (similarity 0.83)
• Popular culture theory requires conceiving persons as fundamentally cultural beings. (similarity 0.83)
• Culture is the interrelation of all social practices, not one practice. (similarity 0.83)
• Culture as constitutive of practice retains contingency and is never finally determined (similarity 0.82)
• Life and its cultural forms are fundamentally in tension (similarity 0.82)
• Cultures represent themselves as fixed but are always changed by history (similarity 0.82)
• Each cultural form is inevitably replaced by its successor (similarity 0.81)
• Culture names the forms, not the content, of social relationships (similarity 0.81)
• The tension between life and form drives cultural change. (similarity 0.81)
• Individuality is produced by entering culture, not given at birth (similarity 0.81)
• For Marx, human labor’s relation to nature is always socially organized and mediated. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Cultural forms ossify and drift apart from the life that created them #complicates (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 837
• Social structures are objectivated meanings built through inter-subjective exchange #expands (0.60)
• Culture is defined as lived meanings plus embodied traditions responding to conditions #expands (0.55)