Bacterial culture

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Bacterial culture

• The cultivation or growth of bacteria, literally
  means that we tend it for the purposes of study

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Culture

• the artistic, literary and civil expressions and
  activities of a given society things of value
• the identifiable way of life of a society or
  group of people things in general

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Characteristics of culture

• Culture is acquired, or learned
• It is contained within societies, but is larger
  than them (dynamic)
• It consists of material things, behaviours, ideas
  and beliefs
• It is not neutral

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More things about culture

• Culture is define politically
• Culture includes things, practices, signs,
  representation and texts
• Is is seen to produce and reproduce social
  relations
• It is about production and consumption
• Capitalism is the larger context

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Ideology is

• a set of ideas that come from a particular set of
  circumstances

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Hegemony occurs when

• it seems natural for dominant groups to exert
  social control over subordinate groups

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Texts used, and further reading

• Christopher Jencks. Culture. Routledge, 1993
• Raymond Williams. Keywords. Fontana Press, 1988.
• Theodore Roszak. The Making of a Counter Culture.
  Anchor Books, 1969.
• A.L. Krober. Anthropology Cultural Patterns and
  Processes. Harbinger, 1963
• Edward Said. Culture and Imperialism. Vintage,
  1993.