...are typical of a particular group. More specifically, Pinderhughes (1989) defines culture". . . as the sum total of ways of living developed by a group of human beings to meet biological and psychosocial needs," and she asserts that the group's values, norms, beliefs,...

...gender as cultures, I am following the definition of Elaine Pinderhughes: "Culture may be defined as the sum total of ways of living developed by a group of human beings to meet biological and psychosocial needs" (Understanding Race, Ethnicity and Power: The Key to Efficacy...

...the term culture. The first perspective I offer is that of Lesslie Newbigin. Newbigin suggests that "by the word culture we have to understand the sum...group of human beings and handed on from generation to generation."6 Culture, then, is an encompassing term concerned with the transmission of human knowledge,...

...shrinking in contrast to many parts of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. A culture is defined by Newbigin as "the sum total of ways of living developed by a group...beings and handed on from generation to generation"; at the center is language as the means by which a people "express their way of perceiving things and...

...to the Greeks (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1986), p. 3. in which culture is simply understood as "the sum total of ways of living developed by a group...generation to generation. Central to culture is language." This definition of culture is broad and nonspecific enough to fit any kind of social grouping, human...

...time in their unique geographical, economic, and historical context. Newbigin defines culture as "... the sum total of ways of living developed by a group of human beings and handed down from generation to generation" (Newbigin 1986, 3). George Otis, an expert in cross-cultural ministry,...