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GLOSSARY INQUIRY: CULTURE
Culture is a label applied to forms or identities that emerge at the level of social collectivity.
Other terms often used synonymously with culture are ‘the body politic’ and ‘the social corpus.’ Such phrases foreground the linguistic habit of referring to culture as a coherent body. Like the biological body, culture is constantly changing as its parts/subagents change and as its context evolves. One might say that the word culture is used to refer to the identity or the knowledge of a social collective.
Traditionally, discussions of schooling have been treated in terms of the separate and competing interests of culture and individuals. Complexity reframes culture and individual as nesting systems. Culture unfolds from the individuals who compose it and visa versa: we are both the agents and products of culture. Education is an important participant in this process of mutual development.
See related terms: Nestedness, Embodiment, Knowledge, Parts.
