Culture

Definition

Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, attitudes, and habits of the individuals in these groups. Culture often originates from or is attributed to a specific region or location.

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Skinner Barbarian Base and superstructure Beauty Behavioral modernity Belief Belles-lettres Benjamin Franklin Bennett scale Biculturalism Big Five personality traits and culture Bildung Bioculture Biological anthropology Blue Shield International Body modification Bro culture Budapest School Byung-Chul Han Cambridge English Dictionary Cannabis culture Capitalist Catholic culture Catholic social teaching Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Charles Fourier Charles Taylor (philosopher)Children's culture Christian culture Christopher Lasch Cicero Circuit of culture Civic political culture Civilization Civilization and Its Discontents Clarissa Wei Classical music Classics Claude Adrien Helvétius Clothing Coffee culture Cognitive adequacy Cognitive science Colombia Colonial mentality Colonization Communication Communitarianism Comparative cultural studies Comparative literature Confucianism Confucius Conservatism Constructed culture Consumer capitalism Consumer culture Continuum of conflict Convention (norm)Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions Cooking Cosmopolitanism Count noun Counterculture Courage Creativity Cringe culture Critical theory Criticism Cross-cultural Cross-cultural capital Cross-cultural communication Cross-cultural leadership Cross-cultural psychiatry Cross-cultural psychology Cross-cultural studies Cross cultural sensitivity Cultural Bolshevism Cultural Christians Cultural Hindus Cultural Muslims Cultural Revolution Cultural Zionism Cultural analysis Cultural analytics Cultural anthropology Cultural appreciation Cultural appropriation Cultural area Cultural artifact Cultural assimilation Cultural astronomy Cultural attaché Cultural backwardness Cultural baggage Cultural bias Cultural capital Cultural center Cultural change Cultural communication Cultural competence Cultural conflict Cultural conservatism Cultural contracts Cultural cringe Cultural critic Cultural deprivation Cultural determinism Cultural diplomacy Cultural dissonance Cultural diversity Cultural ecology Cultural economics Cultural environmentalism Cultural evolution Cultural evolutionism Cultural exception Cultural feminism Cultural framework Cultural genocide Cultural geography Cultural globalization Cultural hegemony Cultural heritage Cultural history Cultural homogenization Cultural icon Cultural identity Cultural impact of the Beatles Cultural imperialism Cultural industry Cultural institution Cultural intelligence Cultural invention Cultural jet lag Cultural lag Cultural landscape Cultural learning Cultural leveling Cultural liberalism Cultural literacy Cultural mapping Cultural materialism (cultural studies)Cultural mediation Cultural memory Cultural mosaic Cultural movement Cultural mulatto Cultural nationalism Cultural neuroscience Cultural pessimism Cultural pluralism Cultural policy Cultural practice Cultural probe Cultural property Cultural psychology Cultural racism Cultural radicalism Cultural relativism Cultural reproduction Cultural retention Cultural rights Cultural safety Cultural sensibility Cultural silence Cultural studies Cultural subsidy Cultural system Cultural technology Cultural tourism Cultural translation Cultural turn Cultural universal Cultural universals Culturalism Culture (disambiguation)Culture 21 Culture and menstruation Culture and positive psychology Culture and social cognition Culture change Culture gap Culture hero Culture industry Culture minister Culture of Buddhism Culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Culture of fear Culture shock Culture theory Culture war Cultureme Culturgen Culturology Culturomics Customary law Cyberculture Daedalus (journal)Dance David Hume De Officiis Deaf culture Death and culture Deculturalization Democracy in America Design culture Developmental Psychology (journal)Dick Hebdige Diffusion Diffusion (anthropology)Diffusion of innovations Digital humanities Disability culture Disposition Distributism Dominant culture Dominator culture Drinking culture Drug culture Durkheim E. B. Tylor E. P. Thompson Eastern Orthodox Culture Eastern culture Eclecticism Edmund Burke Education Educational essentialism Edward S. Casey Edward Tylor Elite Emotion regime Emotions and culture Enculturation Environmental humanities Erasmus Eric Voegelin Erich Fromm Ernest Hemingway Ernest Renan Ethics Ethnic groups Ethnicity Evolution of religion False consciousness Familialism Family values Fandom Far-right subcultures Fashion Feminist Feminist movement Film Film theory Filmmaking Folk culture Folk music Folklore Food Francesco Guicciardini Frankfurt School Frantz Fanon Franz Boas Free-culture movement French feminism Friedrich Engels Friedrich Nietzsche Future orientation Geisteswissenschaft Gender Gender Trouble General knowledge Georg Simmel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel George Santayana Germaine de Staël German language Giambattista Vico Gilles Deleuze Giorgio Agamben Giovanni Gentile Giulio Angioni Globalism Gobustan State Reserve Griselda Pollock Gustave Le Bon Guy Debord Habit Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict Hairstyle Hannah Arendt Hans-Hermann Hoppe Haute cuisine Health humanities Henry David Thoreau Herbert Marcuse Herbert Spencer Hermeneutically Hermeneutics Hierarchy High- and low-context cultures High-trust and low-trust societies High culture Hippolyte Taine Historical culture Historicism Historism History History of Humanities Honour Howard Zinn Human condition Human evolution Human nature Human population Human science Human societies Humanism Humanists Humanitas Humanitas (journal)Humanities Humanities, arts, and social sciences Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Humanities in the United States ISPCK Ibn Khaldun Ibn Tufayl Ice age Identity (social science)Identity formation Ideological Ideology Immanuel Kant Indigenization Indigenous Australians Indigenous peoples Indigenous peoples of the Americas Individualistic culture Infantilization Insects in culture Institution Institutions Intangible cultural heritage Intellectuals and Society Intercultural communication Intercultural competence Intercultural learning Intercultural relations Interculturalism Interculturality Internet culture Invisible hand Involution (esoterism)Isaiah Berlin Islamic culture Jacques Maritain James Cook Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean Baudrillard Jeffrey C. Alexander Jeremy Bentham Jewish culture Johann Gottfried Herder Johann Gottlieb Fichte Johann Herder John Calvin John Dewey John Locke John Milton John Ruskin John Stuart Mill Josiah Royce José Ortega y Gasset Journal of Controversial Ideas Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Journalism culture Judith Butler Julia Kristeva Julius Evola Jürgen Habermas Karl Marx Karl Polanyi Karl von Habsburg Knowledge LGBT culture Languaculture Laozi Latin school Law Learning Left-wing Legal culture Leo Strauss Leonardo (journal)Leonardo Bruni Leszek Kołakowski Lewis Henry Morgan Lexico Liberal arts education Liberalism Linguistic anthropology List of destroyed heritage List of humanities journals List of largest LGBT events List of people considered a founder in a humanities field List of subcultures Literary theory Literature Living things in culture Louis Althusser Louis de Bonald Low culture Loyalty Luce Irigaray Mahatma Gandhi Maimonides Manhattan Manuscript culture Marquis de Condorcet Martha Nussbaum Martin Heidegger Martin Luther Marx Marxism Mass culture Master of Humanities Material culture Matthew Arnold Max Stirner Max Weber Media culture Media influence Medical humanities Mencius Metaphysics Metropolitan Museum of Art Michael Oakeshott Michael Walzer Michel Foucault Michel de Montaigne Microculture Mode of production Modernity Monoculturalism Moral character Morality Mores Moscow University for the Humanities Mozi Multiculturalism Multiracial democracy Museum studies Music Musicology Mutation Mythology NYC Pride March National Endowment for the Humanities National Humanities Medal National character Nationalist Natural law Niccolò Machiavelli Nick Land Noble savage Non-material culture Norms (sociology)Nova Religio Nowruz Official culture One-Dimensional Man Ontology Oppositional culture Oral literature Oration on the Dignity of Man Organization Organizational culture Oswald Spengler Outline of culture Outline of the humanities Oxford University Press Painting Participatory culture Paul Gilroy Paul Willis Perfection Performing arts Permission culture Personalism Personhood Peter Kropotkin Philistinism Philosophy Philosophy of culture Philosophy of education Philosophy of history Photography Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play Plato Pluriculturalism Poetry Political culture Political economy Political organization Political philosophy Polity (publisher)Polybius Polyculturalism Polyphony Pop-culture tourism Popular culture Popular culture studies Postcritique Postmodern philosophy Power (social and political)Primitive culture Print culture Proletariat Protestant culture Protoculture Psychoanalysis Public humanities Public morality Pygmy music Quadrivium Raimon Panikkar Ralph Waldo Emerson Rape culture Raymond Aron Raymond Williams Recombinant culture Reconception Reification (Marxism)Rein Raud Reinhold Niebuhr Relational mobility Relations of production Religion Religious studies Remix culture Renaissance humanism René Guénon Resistance through culture Ressentiment Revue des Études Arméniennes Rhetoric Richard Hoggart Richard Velkley Rights Ritual Robert Epstein Robert Owen Roger Scruton Role of Christianity in civilization Romantic era Romanticism Rousseau Ruling class Russell Kirk Safety culture Samuel von Pufendorf Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Schema (psychology)Science Sculpture Self-realization Self-reflection Semiotics of culture Shelter Sikh art and culture Simone Weil Simone de Beauvoir Sittlichkeit Slavoj Žižek Social Darwinism Social alienation Social behavior Social class Social conservatism Social criticism Social innovation Social interaction Social network Social norm Social organization Social osmosis Social philosophy Social progress Social psychology Social revolution Social science Social sciences Social stratification Social structure Social theory Socialization Society Sociological Sociology Sociology of culture Socrates Sophistication Sound culture Spontaneous order Stewardship Structuralism (sociology)Structuralist Structuration Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)Suanpan Subculture Super culture Swami Vivekananda Symbol Symbolic culture Syncretism Søren Kierkegaard Tea culture Teaching Philosophy Technoculture Technologies Teleologically Television Terror management theory The Beatles The Closing of the American Mind The Culture of Narcissism The History of Sexuality The Malaise of Modernity The Second Sex The Society of the Spectacle The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction The arts Theatre Theodor W. Adorno Theology of culture Thomas Aquinas Thomas Carlyle Thomas Hobbes Thomas Jefferson Thomas Müntzer Thomas Sowell Toleration Tool Tradition Trans-cultural diffusion Transcultural nursing Transculturation Transculturism Transformation of culture Trash culture Trivium Turkmens Tusculanae Disputationes UNC Charlotte UNESCO Umberto Eco Underground culture United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Urban culture Urban pop culture Value (ethics)Value (personal and cultural)Value theory Vernacular culture Vilfredo Pareto Visual art Visual arts Visual culture Vladimir Lenin Voltaire W. E. B. Du Bois Weimar Germany Welfare culture Wendy Griswold Werner Sombart Western culture Wilhelm Röpke Wilhelm von Humboldt Wisdom Work of art Worldview Writing Written Written language Xunzi (philosopher)Youth culture Youth subculture Yurt Zygmunt Bauman Émile Durkheim

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