What is Culture?

Language is strictly ligated to Culture, as culture determines the way we are and the way we live. Therefore, it's quite hard to describe culture. Different persons have postulates theories about what is culture, and I will present them below.

Matthew Arnold thinks that culture is something we aspire to, as he says "The noble aspiration to leave the world better and happier than we find it". He states that culture is something we want to achieve for a better world.

Other scientists think that culture is something outside of us that we learn or we are born into. Claude Levi-Strauss says "(Culture) is made up of rules of conduct, which are not invented and whose function is generally not understood by people who obey them". Also, Edward Tyler states that "(Culture) is acquired by a man as a member of a society"

But there are others that think that culture is something developed by humans. Raymond Williams, for example, says that "The growing society is there, yet it is also made and remade in every individual mind". Finally, Clifford Geertz thinks that humans are suspended in culture as spiders are suspended in webs, and that we build culture every day as spiders spin their webs.