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The Concept of Culture spiritual realm, and is
There are more than 450 manifested in the form of
definitions of culture, and of material and spiritual values.
the various definitions of Material values include
culture, the following are of human achievements in the
particular importance: material realm, such as tools,
- Existentialism objects, and achievements that
In this view, culture is a have been discovered or
combination of existential produced. Spiritual values, on
experiences recognizable by the other hand, include
living within a particular achievements that have no
culture. In this sense, culture material aspect. Such as values,
can not be defined except patterns, criteria, theories and
through the inner experience ideas and concepts and models.
gained by living in the context Some cultural phenomena,
of that culture. Thus, not every including the creative arts, fall
culture is understandable to into both groups of values.
strangers. Edgar Moran, in defining
culture from a structural point
- Structuralism of view, considers culture as a
This view emphasizes the system that has a central core
constituent elements of culture and four peripheral subsystems.
in its definition; And he At the core of this system is
considers culture as the the dark and unknown realm of
product of man's dynamic ontology and cosmology. This
interaction with the environment, field seeks to find appropriate
to meet the needs that arise in answers to fundamental human
every stage of human social questions -such as who I am,
movement, in the material and
