Difference between Social and Cultural Context (1 Viewer)

[serge]

does anyone know the difference between a social
and a cultural context? Generally the definitions of
these terms overlap...

 

[serge]

come on someone must have an idea?

 

[Born Dancer]

as anti - mathmite just pointed out, social context tends to refer to classes of society, where as cultural looks at well.. culture. pretty straight forward really, but yes they often overlap.

 

[serge]

thanks, i understand the cultural context... and the english syllabus
provides this definition
"Cultural- beliefs, values, knowledge, customs and lifestyle. "

i dont think those social definitions can help in the comparative
study of BNW and BR?

 

[exa_boi87]

mm depends really, you could bring in the fact BNW satiries the Russian Totalitarian movement and could even say the World Order is a capitalist body being that theyre in control of human 'production' resulting in profit, and Tyrell's 'ziggurat' sort of places him in a "upper-class" position to approach it in a fuedal manner.

edit: however yes, the two concepts overlap, even in my argument

 

[serge]

thanks, yeh I mentioned Russian Rev. in the 'historical context' which they
also want you to examine
I got 14/15 for my essay at school, but looking at the syllabus
I've only addressed half of what they want