Culture

1.- Which theorist would agree that culture is something we aspire to?

- We decided that Mattew Arnold agrees that culture is something we aspire to "... the noble aspiration to leave the world better and happier..."

2.- Which theorist would believe that culture is something outside of us that we learn or are born into?

- Claude Levi-Strauss believes that culture is every capability and habits that the humans acquire by being a member of society.

3.- Which theorist would argue that culture is something developed by humans?

- Clifford Geertz, believes humans create language, and uses the example of a animal suspended in webs he has spun, and takes culture, to be those webs.

4.- Which definition comes close to your own view of culture?

My point of view is the same as Clifford Geertz, in few words, we, as human being, are the creators of culture.