ABOUT CULTURE

About Culture

About Culture

Mathew Arnold (1882) sees culture as being the study and pursuit of perfection through the acquisition of knowledge. He sees culture as intelligence, as a character of perfection, expressing that culture to him is coming to reason through reading, observing and thinking.

Woolfolk and Margetts (2007) define culture in a different light and state that culture is “The knowledge, values, attitudes and traditions that guide the behaviour of a group of people…” (p.181). Herein is the key for me “a group of people”. These people may be residents of a country, members of a social order or ...