Sociological Revision of Anthropological Theories About Culture
Sociological Revision of Anthropological Theories About Culture

Summary/Abstract: Culture is a multi-generic term that encompasses a world of phenomena. To offer a definitive explanation of this term has already proven to be pretentious. Nevertheless, every definition of culture, regardless of the time of creation, stylistic era and scientific direction has a dose of value, because it depicts and confirms man, his development and his social (co)existence. The goal of this paper is the chronological deconstruction of “outdated” anthropological ideas, theories and directions published in modern scientific publications. Secondly, it offers a concise sociological insight into intertextuality by questioning the independence of new theoretical and ideological directions in the field of culture. The use of the attributes, and/or an outdated theory should be corrected by the fact of “contemporaneity” as the present of the past, which implies a permanent and systemic tendency that places the researcher in a time that is different from the present, that is, the time of the producer of the discourse that the researcher analyses based on the assumption of its scientific relevance. By reviewing the available literature, we concluded that the thought and theoretical continuum fostered by researchers in the scientific multiverse, with its cognitive reach, encourages a thematic and terminological archetype as well as interdisciplinarity in current and future cultural discourses. In addition to the above, we also approached the sociological understanding of art as a correlational term for culture, through the vision of early postmodernists who see these related terms as a specific anthropological, social and civilizational medium. The epilogue paper links ideas about software freedom as determinants of scientific and cultural production in the 21st century.

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