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Meaning of "Culture" in Cultural Studies of Forest

open access: yesThe Japanese Forest Society Congress, 2010
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The Meaning of Culture

2021
This chapter briefly outlines three general conceptions: culture as structure, as distribution of psycho-social traits, as interpretative activity. Specificities, similarities and differences among these approaches are discussed. Moreover, in order to provide common ground to these conceptions, a semantic space of culture is defined.
Marco Cremaschi   +3 more
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Culture, or the Meaning of Meaning Making

2021
Abstract The exploration and investigation of culture is nothing short of complex since the term itself is used in many ways by both academics and lay publics. Symbolic interactionists and “fellow travelers” tend to approach the study of culture from the position of those who experience and practice it.
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Culture and the meanings of cancer

Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 1995
This article proposes that the nurse understand culture ideationally in terms of models of reality. A distinction is made between cultural and individual models, and between lay persons' models of sickness and practitioners' models. These are described and discussed in relation to the meanings of cancer.
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