Definitions

 

 Definitions identify, contexualize, characterize and limit, explain, note relations, causes & affects, significances, usages
Christianity Jn 3:16 Is that sufficient for a definition? Acts ch 2 describes & defines what the first Christians did, and why they did it.

Culture

 

        Culture describes a group of people who share/integrate at least one if not more: characteristics, values, lifestyles or beliefs.

Counter-Culture

 

         Countercultures:  groups which not only differ from some of the norms of a parent-society, but are in conflict with them while united by reform or revolutionary ideals.

Sub-Culture

 

        Subculture: groups which are unified by distinct characteristics, values, lifestyles or beliefs which are different from the rest of their contextual-society.

Observations,

 

Questions,

 

Food for thought,

 

Party of the mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       What does it mean, this "culture"? What does it mean to be part of a culture? As different cultures exist, side by side, do they necessarily counter one another? For example, think about elite and popular culture: does popular music counter classical music? Art? etc...

       What does it mean, to "counter" a culture? How can you locate and define a dominant culture? How is it countered? Are there results to countering, and are they important to this discussion? Does a countering ever result in the failure of the dominant culture and its replacement by the counter-culture? Do counter-cultures fail and wither away? Does the act of countering change one or the other? For example, did the 60s hippie counter-culture fail, or merge, or change the norms then disappear, or continue on? (See the Links page)

       What is a "sub-culture"? Does a sub-culture automatically counter the dominant by its very existence? Does a dominant culture usually have a number of sub-cultures normally?

     Does a dominant culture counter itself? Does the western, post-Abelardian climate of thought produce 'internal' counter-cultures regularly? Are they significant or mental play-things? ("I'm a non-conformist like all my friends!") In other words, how does individualism and/or critical thinking fit into all this?

Sources:     

       To some extent, the above questions can be explored by going through the sites on the Links Page. Your own background, interests, past courses, ongoing reading and living will provide other ideas and examples. In a sense, these questions invite you to pull together ALL and everything you are and have learned.