etymology

1. “Etymology of
Culture”

2. Etymology : an explanation of
where a word came from : the
history of a word
:the study of a word
histories

3. Is derived from the (Latin:
“cultura”, which means care, or
“cultus” meaning “civilization”).

4. o To which an individual is
born provides him the
needed care and
attention as he grows
into a mature person.

5. Culture
Georg simmel
“the cultivation of individuals
through the agency of external
forms which have been
objectified in course of history”

6. Other definitions are:

7. Sir Edward B. Tylor’s
• Culture… is that complex whole
which includes knowledge,
beliefs, arts, morals, law, customs,
and any other capabilities and
habits acquired by a human as a
member of society.

8. Geert Hofstede
• Is the collective programming
of the human mind that
distinguishes the members of the
human group from those of
another. Culture in this sense is a
system of collectively held
values.

9. Edgar Schein
•Is the deeper level of basic
assumptions and beliefs that
are shared by members of an
organization that operate
unconsciously and define in a
basic ‘taken for granted’
fashion an organization’s view
of its self and its environment

10. Clifford Geertz
•Is simply the
ensemble of
stories we tell
ourselves about
ourselves.--

11. Bronislaw Malinowski
•Is a well-organize unity
divided into two
fundamental aspects--a
body of artifacts and a
system of customs.”–

12. Culture
Franz Boas
Embraces all the manifestations
of social habits of a community,
the individual as affected by the
habits of the group in which he
lives, and the product of human
activities as determined by
these habits”.