| Abstrakt: |
The study of culture consists of multitudinous relationships among different social realms. Clifford Geertz (1973) referred to this as the cultural web. However, he did not have the mathematical instruments for the explication of this phenomenon. Modern social network analysis (SNA) provides a rich and complex model of social relationships in terms of graph theory (Kadushin, 2012; Prell, 2012). It also allows one to investigate groups and subgroups of relationships within a complex entity and define the various structural subgroups within culture. This presentation provides an overview of what constitutes a mathematical framework of cultural theory and how it can be used to explain the social and cultural structures among various groups. It argues against the limitations of traditional communicative theory and enhances it with a communicative network model. However, there are limitations to social network analysis and a model of the torus is suggested as replacement for how intercultural communication operates over time. The concepts of popular culture and deep culture are introduced and their relationship is discussed within the context of Bourdieu's (1977, 1984) theories of a modular model of Field and Habitus. Hence, it is argued that a toroidal model of the stratification of culture also explains the mechanisms of cultural change and the phenomenon of communicative resonance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
