Cultural studies learn

The word «culture» derives from the Latin «…»

• Colere

• Colour

• Color

• Cultivate

Who used “culture” as a cultivation of the soul?

• Cicero

• Plato

• Tylor

• Herder

• Al-Farabi

Who compiled a list of more than 200 different definitions of culture in their book?

• Geertz, V. Turner

• White, R. Dawkins

• Kroeber, C. Kluckhohn

• Tylor, Leavis

What R. Dawkins defined as a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation and replication?

• Meme

• Culture

• Symbol

• Sign

• Code

Modern understanding of cultural studies in Kazakhstan

• Culture studies

• Group of disciplines (theories of literature, sociology of culture, aesthetics…)

• A new philosophy of culture, noticeably more ideologically committed

• Science of Kazakh culture

Who introduced the symbolic view of culture?

• L. White, E. Tylor

• A. Kroeber, C. Kluckhohn

• E. Tylor, O. Kont

• C. Geertz, V. Turner

Civilization is expressed in physical attributes

• toolmaking technology

• norms of behavior

• traditions

• ethics

Founder of European tradition of semiotics in cultural studies

• F. Saussure

• E. Tylor

• B. Russell

• G. Hegel

Founder of American tradition of semiotics in cultural studies

• F. Saussure

• E. Tylor

• Ch. Peirce

• G. Hegel

How F. de Saussure called formal discipline about signs?

• Semiology

• Semiotics

• Semantics

• Syntactics