october 13th 2008
This class was very interesting because we had to prepare a 5m talk about an article of Raymon Williams called "Culture is Ordinary". In my point of view I think I did a good job in my presentaion.
In my opinion the article of Raymond Williams talks about the different definitions that the word culture has.
He first mention the word culture as a noun “colere” from latin and that it was related with agriculture, cultivate something, like potatoes or carrots.
He also tells us later on, the use of the word culture as a metaphor, that is when we give a meaning with our own perspective/educational input. If you had education or if you learned a lot, you were culture.
But the word developed during time and became an abstract noun with several meanings describing intellectual and artist’s activity. The word can be associated with a nation, a country a group of people or even with just a person, because culture must be a whole way of life with its common meanings, as well as the processes of discovery and creativity in the arts and learning. He believes that culture is unique to each person but is something that everyone has. Many times people can draw experiences from the same things but as they lead different lives, the culture derived from those occurrences would be different. Culture is ordinary as it is all around us constantly affecting our way of thinking and our actions; we draw from everyday, ordinary experiences in constantly forming and adapting our own culture. Our own perspective and the way we define culture will change depending the place we live, the education that we have and also when we go to an institution like a hospital, a school, a museum these places will shape the way we see culture.
This class was very interesting because we had to prepare a 5m talk about an article of Raymon Williams called "Culture is Ordinary". In my point of view I think I did a good job in my presentaion.
In my opinion the article of Raymond Williams talks about the different definitions that the word culture has.
He first mention the word culture as a noun “colere” from latin and that it was related with agriculture, cultivate something, like potatoes or carrots.
He also tells us later on, the use of the word culture as a metaphor, that is when we give a meaning with our own perspective/educational input. If you had education or if you learned a lot, you were culture.
But the word developed during time and became an abstract noun with several meanings describing intellectual and artist’s activity. The word can be associated with a nation, a country a group of people or even with just a person, because culture must be a whole way of life with its common meanings, as well as the processes of discovery and creativity in the arts and learning. He believes that culture is unique to each person but is something that everyone has. Many times people can draw experiences from the same things but as they lead different lives, the culture derived from those occurrences would be different. Culture is ordinary as it is all around us constantly affecting our way of thinking and our actions; we draw from everyday, ordinary experiences in constantly forming and adapting our own culture. Our own perspective and the way we define culture will change depending the place we live, the education that we have and also when we go to an institution like a hospital, a school, a museum these places will shape the way we see culture.
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