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  Culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Culture encompasses "in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs".
They began to argue that culture is human nature, and that culture has its roots in the universal human capacity to classify experiences, and encode and communicate them symbolically.
Cultural studies developed in the late 20th century, in part through the reintroduction of Marxist thought into sociology, and in part through the articulation of sociology and other academic disciplines such as literary criticism, in order to focus on the analysis of subcultures in capitalist societies.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Culture   (903 words)

  
 Culture Article, Culture Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
They began to argue that culture ishuman nature, and that culture has its roots in the universal human capacity to classify experiences, and encode and communicatethem symbolically.
As a rule, archeologists focus on material culture, and cultural anthropologists focus on symbolic culture, althoughultimately both groups maintain interests in the relationship between these two dimensions.
Cultural studies developed in the late 20th century, in partthrough the reintroduction of Marxist thought into sociology, and in part through the articulation of sociology andother academic disciplines such as literary criticism, in orderto focus on the analysis of subcultures in capitalist societies.
www.anoca.org /different/people/culture.html   (887 words)

  
 Warsaw Palace of Culture - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
eo:Varsovia Kultur- kaj Sciencpalaco The Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science (Pałac Kultury i Nauki) was a controversial gift from the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to the people of Warsaw in Poland, which, at the time (the 1950s), was a satellite state of the USSR.
It is a huge concrete neo-gothic block adjacent to Warsaw Central Station, which has a unique beauty of its own, and this ambivalence is reflected in the attitude of the native Varsovians to the building which is the subject of a love-hate relationship.
Initially the building was called 'Stalin's Palace' (Pałac imienia Stalina) until it was renamed in the late 1950s.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Warsaw_Palace_of_Culture   (173 words)

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