Culture as primary o The notion of culture is a primary not secondary element o CULTURE is the way we make sense of give meaning to the world o Cultures consist of maps of meaning and frameworks of intelligibility o Meanings arise because of the shared conceptual maps Conceptual Maps Classifying the world o What are the shared conceptual maps What are the ways in which we classify and organize the world o The capacity to classify is a basic genetic feature of human beings o The particular system of classification used in a society is learnt o Culture is a system of representation Language and Communication o The concept of language and communication complete representation o Language externalizes the meanings that we are making of the world
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