Meanings and Nuances intended here by the term Culture:
- People with a shared vision…
- bonding together for a significant period…
- to share in each others life experiences while pursuing common objectives related to the common vision.
- Levels of mindfulness, agreement, or support of the common vision varies significantly among members of the group. Therefore…
- a hierarchical authority structure will exist to formalize, explain, revise, justify, and defend the common vision and supporting strategies.
Examples of nuances in the meaning of Culture:
business partnership, city, club, committee, corporation, empire, family, farm, hospital, hospital unit, local church, media or entertainment organization, military unit, nation, news, police force, political activist organization, province, sports team, tribe, university, urban gang, village
Miscellaneous Notes regarding Culture:
- shared traditions, language, social expectations
- cultures will, in the very nature of matters, perform co-parenting
- Why “faceness” and “the facing realm”? With minimal exceptions, culture in its most basic form is comprised of two people facing each other. The many meanings, uses, and nuances of the word “face” speak volumes in this context. Examples:
- Familiar faces (a simple definition of a community)
- Face the music (to suffer unpleasant repercussions from the wider community)
- Tell me to my face (no longer keeping something private for social reasons)
- I don’t want to lose face (reputation; being perceived by the community)
- Trying to save face (reputation; being perceived by the community)
- I must put on a _____ face for herm (compelled to fit one’s individuality into the wider cultural frame)
- Face to face (intersubjectivity)
- When s/he came in to the room, our faces lit up (an individual’s gifts and strengths going beyond that individual
- Don’t show you face here again (rejection by the community)
