Topic > Culture - 1229

It is interesting that Raymond Williams creates a division between high-class culture and lower-class culture, suggesting that culture is ordinary, shared, and common. If so, why does he highlight a division in light of this concept? And if we all share a common culture, can there be a divide? It is difficult to understand the term culture. What is culture? Is it a utopian dream, is it a shared group of interests that unites a community, or is it simply a way of life? There are so many questions about culture and what it means. Raymond Williams described culture as “maps of meaning through which the world is made intelligible,” whether you agree with this definition or not, he was right that the term culture is one of the “most complicated words in the language.” English"; Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. This is partly due to its intricate historical development {...} but mainly because it has now been used for important concepts in several distinct intellectual disciplines and in several distinct and incompatible systems of thought. Formulating an essay entirely on the meaning of cultures would be extremely difficult because its meaning is so vast and indescribable and would therefore not lead to any relevant conclusions. Culture has paradigmatic complexity and this is what makes it so difficult to analyze effectively. However, if a phrase is placed before the word "culture", the word that defines the disciplines, it becomes more identifiable; pop culture, oral culture and print culture. In this essay I will focus primarily on Internet culture and describe my understanding of the term and point out...... middle of paper... preachers", thus allowing all publicists and promoters to have leadership over the public It may seem that Tarde was echoing Lebon's theory, but he certainly was not. Tarde spoke of a pluralistic society, describing the present as “the era of the public or publics”. a crowd at the same time, so that “the gradual replacement of the public by the crowd is always accompanied by an advance in tolerance” ([1898] 1969, p. 281). but that a “fall from public to crowd, although extremely dangerous, is quite rare and] it remains clear that the opposition of two publics, always ready to merge along their indistinct] .frontiers, is a minor danger to peace social compared to the meeting of two opposing crowds" ([1898] 1969, p.. 282).