General Knowledge: Culture

General concepts on Culture :

• Definitions and etymology of culture
• Quotes on Culture

News/policy course on Culture :

• Cultural exception
• Free culture in France
• The 35 hour week and culture
• Culture: London becomes the world’s leading tourist city ahead of Paris in 2014
• A retrospective on culture in 2013 and the controversies
• Digital culture and ego-surfing

Economics/sociology course on Culture:

• The Study of Culture: Individual and Society – Edward Sapir
• Culture and personality – Edward Sapir
• 3 ideas of Claude Lévi-Strauss on culture
• Culture as measured by literacy and education

Philosophy/Literature course on Culture:

• 3 kinds of education, purpose and origins – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Summary of the Treatise on Pedagogy – Immanuel Kant
• “Their flight, they call it culture” Nietzsche
• A state of nature in Rousseau?
• Summary of Multiculturalism – Charles Taylor
• Artistic culture, a beacon for man – Baudelaire

History of culture:

• The culture of the middle 19th – 1939
• Mass culture or popular culture

Corrected topics on culture :

• Corrected topic: Does the globalization of culture lead to standardization?

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