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Defined as a process of humanization of man and his world — as an image of a more human world — culture always stands midway between conception and realization, between the ideal and reality, between the new and the already attained.
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R. Linton, The Cultural Background of Personality (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1964), p. 21. [Orig. ed. 1945].
M. Mead, ‘Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples,’ (1937)
Ford C. S., ‘Culture and Human Behaviour,’ (1942), both quotations from A. L. Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn, eds. Culture, A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions (Vintage Books, Random House, New York, 1963), pp. 90.
Ford C. S., ‘Culture and Human Behaviour,’ (1942), both quotations from A. L. Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn, eds. Culture, A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions (Vintage Books, Random House, New York, 1963), pp. 107.
C. Kluckhohn and W. Kelly, ‘The Concept of Culture,’ in R. Linton, ed. The Science of Man in the World Crisis (Columbia University Press, New York, 1945), pp. 81–82.
[This phrase achieved wide recognition in, among other sources, C. Kluckhohn, Mirror For Man (McGraw Hill, New York, 1949) - Ed.]
E. B. Tylor, ‘Primitive Culture,’ (1871), quotation from Kroeber and Kluckhohn, Culture, op cit., p. 81.
In his Culture as Praxis, Zygmunt Bauman writes: “Culture constitutes the human experience in the sense that it constantly brings into relief the discord between the ideal and the real, that it makes reality meaningful by exposing its limitations and imperfections, that it invariantly melts and blends knowledge and interest; or rather culture is a mode of human praxis in which knowledge and interest are one.” Z. Bauman, Culture as Praxis (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1973), p. 173.
Cf. the full discussion in Ibid.
C. Levi-Strauss, Anthropologie Structurale (Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1958), pp. 78
C. Levi-Strauss, Anthropologie Structurale (Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1958), pp. 94
C. Levi-Strauss, Anthropologie Structurale (Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1958), pp. 326–327
C. Levi-Strauss, The Scope of Anthropology (Cape Editions, London, 1967), p. 20.
[See Bauman, Ibid., passim - Ed.]
J. P. Sartre, ‘Entretien sur l’Anthropologie’, Cahiers de Philosophie 2–3 (février, 1966), 3–12.
H. Léfèbvre, ‘Réflexion sur le structuralisme et l’histoire’, Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie 35 (1963).
H. Marcuse, ‘Bemerkungen zu einer Neubestimmung der Kultur’ in H. Marcuse, Kultur und Gesellschaft, Vol. II (Suhrkamp Verlag, 1966), p. 148;
D. Bidney, ‘The Concept of Cultural Crisis’, American Anthropologist 48 (1946), 535–546.
K. Marx and F. Engels, The German Ideology, ed. S. Ryazanskaya (Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1964), p. 38.
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Golubović, Z. (1979). Culture As a Bridge Between Utopia and Reality. In: Marković, M., Petrović, G. (eds) Praxis. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9355-6_10
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