In short, culture is everything, material or immaterial (beliefs, values, behaviors and concrete objects), that identifies a certain group of people, and arise from their experiences in a certain reality.
In other words, culture is the way human beings develop life and contribute to the world or the part where they live; therefore, culture is development, intellectual or artistic. It is civilization itself.
As there is a juxtaposition between languages and cultures, individuals progress to acquire a globalized interculturality, as well as peoples improve their organizational levels from villages to cities, from these to metropolises and later to megapolis, which is the cradle of interculturality and ethnicity.
Concept of Culture According to Various Sciences
For the science of Anthropology, culture is the set of elements of a material or spiritual nature, organized logically and coherently, which includes knowledge, beliefs, art, morality, law, customs, customs, and all the habits and skills acquired by men as members of society.
For Sociology, culture is the set of environmental stimuli that generate the socialization of the individual.
For Philosophy, culture is the set of creative productions of man that transform the environment and this in turn affects modifying that.
The Image Culture is the cultural system or totality whose key element is the iconography. It is used in opposition to the culture of the word.
Mass Culture -in Sociology- is a set of values, dominant in developed societies, which is based on the transmission of knowledge and beliefs from the mass media (radio, television, press, etc…. the so-called more average).
The General Culture is the set of knowledge required of every person in a specific cultural environment as basic to act in society, regardless of any specialization.
Popular Culture -for Anthropology- is the intellectual or material production created by the popular layers of a society. It comprises folklore, myth, legend, fable, songs and popular music, crafts and clothing.
Culture is "the complex mix of assumptions, behaviors, stories, myths, metaphors and other ideas that fit together and define what it means to be a member of a specific society."
Ethnic Groups and Cultural Identity
The population of the entire earth is made up of different ethnic groups. That is why it is necessary that we know this cultural diversity.
The word ethnicity of the Greek voice tennos means people or nation, that is, a group of people who share common characteristics, which allow them to identify themselves as belonging to the same group and to differentiate themselves from others.
Ethnic groups can be differentiated from each other by aspects such as language, clothing, and social organization and worldview.
Ethnicity is a natural grouping of individuals of the same culture that admits racial groups and varied social organizations.
Ethnology is the science that studies races and peoples. Ethnology aims to explain the culture of a certain people and the universal customs that can serve to explain other cultures.
The schools are: evolutionism, diffusionism, parallelism, functionalism, the school of American culture and personality, the Anglo-Saxon social school and structuralism.
1. James A. F Stoner., R Edgard Freeman, Daniel R Gilbert. Jr, Administration, sixth edition.p.199.
