VIII. Culture.(Twenty Years of Trends in Communication Research)(Critical Essay) From: Communication Research Trends | Date: March 22, 2000| Author: Biernatzki, W.E. | COPYRIGHT 2000 Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Definitions of Culture

The definitions of "culture" most current in the "science of culture," cultural and social anthropology, have changed, at least in emphasis, as anthropologists have lost their earlier preoccupation with isolated or semi-isolated "primitive" cultures and have been forced to deal with the contemporary reality of social groups that are increasingly interactive with each other, and whose cultural "boundaries" are less clearly definable than in the pas...