Culture
Culture (Latin: cultura, lit. "cultivation") is a modern concept based on a term first used in classical antiquity by the Roman orator, Cicero: "cultura animi". The term "culture" appeared first in its current sense in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, to connote a process of cultivation or improvement, as in agriculture or horticulture. In the 19th century, the term developed to refer first to the betterment or refinement of the individual, especially through education, and then to the fulfillment of national aspirations or ideals. In the mid-19th century, some scientists used the term "culture" to refer to a universal human capacity. For the German nonpositivist sociologist Georg Simmel, culture referred to "the cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have been objectified in the course of history".
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... The College of Culture and Science is composed of two departments School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Graduate School of Culture and Technology ... The Graduate School of Culture and Technology also provides master and doctoral degree programs for the purpose of producing manpower of the nation’s cultural industry with support of the Ministry of Culture and ... visiting professors, 1 research professor, 40 lecturers), the Graduate School of Culture and Technology also has 4 full-time faculties, 5 visiting professors, 7 adjunct ...
... itself is illegal, it is often also an integral part of modern popular culture ... Friedrich Nietzsche himself meditated about the "fight against culture", wondering what could justify culture if it were to be destroyed in such a "senseless" manner (the arguments are culture is justified by works ... In this case, culture cannot be legitimised by art achievements, and Nietzsche writes "I {also} know what it means fighting against culture" ...
... Yayoi culture quickly spread to the main island of Honshū mixing with native Jōmon culture ... This was possible due to the introduction of an irrigated, wet-rice culture from the Yangtze estuary in southern China via the Ryukyu Islands or Korean Peninsula ...
More definitions of "culture":
- (noun): All the knowledge and values shared by a society.
Synonyms: acculturation
- (noun): The raising of plants or animals.
Example: "The culture of oysters"
- (noun): The attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization.
Example: "The developing drug culture"; "the reason that the agency is doomed to inaction has something to do with the FBI culture"
- (noun): (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar).
Example: "The culture of cells in a Petri dish"
- (noun): A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality.
Synonyms: polish, refinement, cultivation, finish
- (noun): A particular society at a particular time and place.
Synonyms: civilization, civilisation
- (noun): (bacteriology) the product of cultivating micro-organisms in a nutrient medium.
Famous quotes containing the word culture:
“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)