CHAPTER TWO The Concept of Culture in Anthropology ...

1 CHAPTER TWO The Concept of Culture in Anthropology : Knowledge Base I This CHAPTER and the next constitute a dual knowledge base designed to help educators come to grips with the many very different notions of Culture that they encounter in the literature of multicultural education. In view of the diversity one finds in other disciplines that deal with Culture it would be unreasonable to expect to find in that literature a single notion of Culture , and even more unreasonable to expect a truly original meaning for that term. The proper subject matter is education, not Culture or for that matter any of the other important load-bearing concepts used by multiculturalists, such as personal identity, cognitive development, and social justice. Such concepts are imported from other disciplines such as philosophy and the social and behavioral sciences, where they have long and complex histories. As is the case with these other imports, Culture is a highly contested Concept , a fact that education theorists seldom allow for when they use it in their discussions of multicultural issues.

the major conceptions of culture found in the relevant classical and contemporary social theories. However, for that chapter to make sense it is necessary first to chart the logical geography of the social theories themselves. To this end I have provided the two closely related knowledge bases

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