Culture: discussion about its current validity

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Tulia Alamanza Loaiza
María del Carmen Docal

Abstract

Currently there are a great variety of theories over culture that comes from different disciplines. In this paper the discussion is based around two perspectives: Firstly from cultural anthropological theories and secondly from conceptualizations of cultural philosophy. The discussion is based on structural anthropology and of the historical particularization which transmits the evolutionist theories to explain the social and cultural conformation as a whole. That they can relate the structure of familiarity and social order to the symbolic forms and believes. This approximation allows the social organization groups to unite with political participative ways and with the aim of understanding and discussing cultural marginalities and the variety of the so called urban subcultures that today demand their rights before a democratic state; achieved through searching for proper identification.

Author Biographies

Tulia Alamanza Loaiza, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios

Es docente de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales de la Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios. Antropóloga, Magíster en Filosofía de la Universidad Nacional.

María del Carmen Docal, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios

Es docente de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales de la Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios. Trabajadora Social. Magíster en Estudios Políticos de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.