... at the same time, the Victorians considered culture as something a society or a nation could hold to a greater or smaller extent. Another anthropologist who had is own definition is Raymond Williams. He had formerly heard the term 'culture' used to allude to "a kind of social superiority" or "where it was an active word for writing poems and novels, making films and paintings, working in theatres". He then heard it in a way that suggested "powerfully but not explicitly, some central formation of values" as well as "a use which made it almost equivalent to society: a particular way of life". "Culture is the integral whole consisting of implements and consumers' good, of constitutional charters for the various social groupings, of human ideas and crafts, beliefs and customs. Whether we consider a very simple or primitive culture or an extremely complex and developed one, we are confronted by ...

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