 | William G. McLoughlin - History - 1978 - 260 pages
...rights. Culture, Geertz writes, "denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings 1800-1830 embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life." American... | |
 | Chaim Waxman - History - 2010 - 300 pages
...Jewish ethnicity, is particularly relevant in terms of the way Clifford Geertz defines culture: "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge and attitudes toward life" (Geertz, 1976,... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 430 pages
...less intricate but suitable Interpretation of Cultures. Culture was defined within the text as "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men [and women] communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life."... | |
 | Richard A. Shweder - Social Science - 1984 - 376 pages
...suspect most of the conferees would feel comfortable with Geertz's own definition of culture as "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic form by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes... | |
 | Georg G. Iggers - Biography & Autobiography - 1984 - 284 pages
...he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs." Culture presents itself, he continued, as "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic form by which men communicate, perpetrate and develop their knowledge about attitudes toward life."... | |
 | Richard John Neuhaus - Religion - 1986 - 300 pages
...purposes we can employ the definition offered by sociologist Clifford Geertz. Culture, says Geertz, is "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life." 3 Culture... | |
 | Wendy Griswold - History - 1986 - 328 pages
...forgotten works. 13. The quotation is from Clifford Geertz definition of culture, the whole of which is "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conception expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their... | |
 | Randall L. Pouwels, Randall Lee Pouwels - History - 2002 - 292 pages
...collective experiences of the world in which they live both in time and space. Thus, a culture evolves as a historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate and develop their knowledge about the attitudes towards life.40 As man... | |
 | Robert B. Crotty - Religion - 1987 - 242 pages
...religion, art. Clifford Geertz describes culture as An historically transmitted pattern of meaning embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and their attitudes toward life. 7 Culture... | |
 | Hubert Cancik, Burkhard Gladigow, Matthias Samuel Laubscher - Religion - 1988 - 512 pages
...WEBER, FREUD, MALINOWSKI und PARSONS von CLIFFORD GEERTZ entwickelt.11 Er definiert Kultur als »an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied...conceptions, expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate perpetuate and develop their knowledge about and their attitudes toward life«.11 Mit... | |
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I can see, any unusual ambiguity: it denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge... 
