Google Culture

[benlangdon]

Would you consider Google a culture?

 

[bld44]

No.

Here's some definitions of culture from some sociologists that I have saved from a course in sociology I took.

Kluckhohn -- Culture is the total life way of a people, the social legacy the individual acquires from a group

Becker -- The shared understandings that people use to coordinate their activities

Another way to think of Culture is to view it as the totality of learned, socially transmitted language, values, norms, sanctions, knowledge, material objects, technology and behavior.

You may have something with the material part, but I wouldn't define google as being a culture.

 

[PlaceofDis]

no.

but as a society we're more and more becoming used to the tools provided by google.

 

[clevin]

yes

Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate,")[1] generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance. Cultures can be "understood as systems of symbols and meanings that even their creators contest, that lack fixed boundaries, that are constantly in flux, and that interact and compete with one another"[2] Different definitions of "culture" reflect different theoretical bases for understanding, or criteria for evaluating, human activity.

Culture is manifested in music, literature, lifestyle, painting and sculpture, theater and film and similar things.[3] Although some people identify culture in terms of consumption and consumer goods (as in high culture, low culture, folk culture, or popular culture),[4] anthropologists understand "culture" to refer not only to consumption goods, but to the general processes which produce such goods and give them meaning, and to the social relationships and practices in which such objects and processes become embedded. For them, culture thus includes art, science, as well as moral systems.

 

[iTeen]

Its a Culture icon.

 

[karenflower]

It's an important part of internet culture, but not wholly something in itself; I would with agree with iTeen that it's a cultural icon instead.

 

[yeroen]

A corporate culture.

Their professed motto is "don't be evil".

 

[LizKat]

Right, and then came the acquisition of Doubleclick.