{"product_id":"british-cultural-studies-an-overview-von-sabrina-habermann","title":"British Cultural Studies: An Overview","description":"\u003cp\u003eResearch Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics - English - Applied Geography, grade: 2, University of Education Heidelberg, language: English, abstract: A large number of people believe that everything that is man - made can be seen as culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoran leaves no doubt about those products' importance, when he writes: ¿Products, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evisible dimension of culture, are the gateway to the new culture, the new way of life¿ (p. 48).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut are there only architecture, paintings, literature, music, language, and food which come to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emind if we think of a country's culture? The iceberg model shows that these aspects represent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eonly a small amount of culture that, just like the visible section of an iceberg above the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewaterline, can be seen easily and understood clearly. However, there are a lot more facets,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealso like an iceberg, that can only be suspected or imagined. These parts of the iceberg are its\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efoundation and the iceberg model makes clear that it is impossible to understand people from\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edifferent cultural backgrounds, unless we are able to appreciate what the foundations of their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eculture are. But no matter how many different definitions of the term \"culture\" exist, a lot of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethem cover problems concerning the human beings and their life in a community. This implies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat we can't learn about another country's culture by reading a lot of books about it, but we\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eneed the encounter with another way of life. In that way, culture can also be seen as a concept\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhich regulates the interpersonal cohabitation of human beings in a collective. This collective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edoes not have to be a country by all means, but can also be a group of people with the same\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einterests. If some people who are fond of a special musical genre such as goth, pool together,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethey have their own culture, too and it is not necessary that they live in the same country. But\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eit is not merely the music that connects them, but rather \"shared interpretations about beliefs,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evalues, and norms, which affect the behaviors\" (Lustig, Koester, 2003, p. 27) and influence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe way their thinking is organized. [...]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656532279\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656532279","offer_id":39432559689821,"sku":"9783656532279","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/eadfed69-2cba-445b-98f8-16655d77d705.jpg?v=1778304358","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/british-cultural-studies-an-overview-von-sabrina-habermann","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}