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DIMENSIONS: CONTEXT / Relationship

Cultural Context






The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon man's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations . . . . The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious or social group . . . . The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes a company or corporation . . . . Prepared, Educated, Trained, Developed, Cultivated . . . . 


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Webster's Collegiate Dictionary:
Culture n [ME, fr. MF, fr. L ccultura, fr. cultus, pp] [15c] 1: Cultivation, Tillage 2: the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties esp. by education 3: expert care and training [beauty __] 4a: enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual alnd aesthetic training b: acquaintance with and taste in fine arts, humanities, and broad aspects of science as distinguished from vocational and technical skills 5a: the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon man's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations b: the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious or social group c: the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and paractices that characterizes a company or corporation 6: cultivation of living material in prepared nutrient media; also: a product of such cultivation

2 Culture vt cultured; culturing [1510] 1: cultivate 2a: to grow in a prepared medium b: to start a culture from

[Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition. Springfield, MA, USA: Merriam-Webster, Inc. 1995.]



Random House Dictionary:
Cultural - The Sum total of Ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted [from one generation to another] . . . . A particular Form or Stage of civilization . . . . Development or Improvement of the mind by education or training . . . . Response, Result, Product in relationship to culture, development, improvement . . . . Education . . . . to subject to culture, development, improvement . . . . Quality that arises from an interest/acquaintance with what is generally regarded as [excellence in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.] . . . .

Cultural adj. of or pertaining to culture or cultivation.

Culture n. 1. the quality in a person or society that arises from an interest in and acquaintance with what is generaly regarded as excellence in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc. 2. a. particular form or stage of civilization: Greek culture. 3. Sociol. the sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another. 4. Biol. a. the cultivation of microorganisms, as bacteria, or of tissues, for scientific study, medical use, etc. b. the product or growth resulting from such cultivation. 5. the act or practice of cultivating the soil; tillage. 6. the raising of plants or ani mals, esp. with a view to their improvement. 7. the product or growth resulting from such cultivation. 8. development or improvement of the mind by education or training. v.t. 9. to subject to culture; cultivate. 10. Biol. a. to develop [microorganisms, tissues, etc.] in an artificial medium. b. to introduce [living material] into a culture medium. [ME tilling, place tilled < L cultúr(a). -Syn. 8. See education.

[Urdang, Laurence, ed. Random House Dictionary of The English Language. New York: Random House, 1968.]




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