SCOPE OF THE CONCEPT OF CULTURE AND CULTURAL POLICY
Text topic: Culture in Transition
- culture
- identity
Text author: Драган Жунић
The author focuses on one aspect of the problem in defining the concept of culture – its importance for the conceiving of cultural policy, along with the following topics: 1. A Viewpoint: technological globalization – economic and legislative integration – cultural communication; 2. Some moments in the history of broader and narrower definitions and legal instrumentalization of the concept of culture; 3. The case of Serbia; 4. Advantages and disadvantages of theoretical and legislative use of the broader and narrower concept of culture, and a pragmatic recommendation for the use of the narrower term; 5. Culture as a collection of symbolical forms and practices, and a meaningful value orientation in the world and in life.