Culture is understood here as a matrix of meanings that plays a constitutive part in generating and
preserving a collective identity (Geertz, 1994: 9). Everything a society constructs to generate and
preserve the collective identity and is thus established by actors in a communications situation as
the context can be assigned to the domain of culture1
. Here, culture is always infused with meaning,
as Max Weber (1988: 180) already pointed out: “From the human standpoint, culture is a finite
segment of the meaningless infinity of occurrences in the world that has been imbued with sense
and meaning.”