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Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Cultural artifact

A cultural artifact is an man-made object which gives information about the culture of its creator and users. The artifact may change over time in what it represents, how it appears and how and why it is used as the culture changes over time. This can also be seen in biofacts. A biofact represents biotechnological changes in a living entity, according to cultural visions. See also. Social artifact ...

Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia II - Samara culture - Artifacts Samara culture - Pottery. Pottery consists mainly of egg-shaped beakers with pronounced rims. They were not able to stand on a flat surface, suggesting that some method of supporting or carrying must have been in use, perhaps basketry or slings, for which the rims would have been a useful point of support. The carrier slung the pots over the shoulder or onto an animal. The material of th ...

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Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Artifact

An artifact (also artefact) refers to any object or process resulting from human activity which represents things from the past. The specific meanings of the word are several: An artifact in archaeology An artifact of observation An artifact of fantasy A cultural artifact (from sociology) An artifact of railways An artifact in software engineering A compression artifact in computer science, resulting from lossy data compression Artifact is a name

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Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Artifact archaeology

In archaeology, an artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human culture, and often one later recovered by some archaeological endeavor. Examples include stone tools such as projectile points, pottery vessels such as amphorae, metal objects such as buttons or guns and items of personal adornment such as jewellery and clothing. Other examples include bone that shows signs of human modification, fire ...

Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Western culture

Western culture refers to the culture that has developed in the Western world. It comprises the heritage of norms, values, customs and sometimes artifacts that the cultures of the Western world share. A Western culture refers to one of the many cultures in the Western world. The term ‘Western’ may be used as a contrast to Communist countries, to Daoist Asian countries, to Islamic nations, or to developing Third World countries. Various uses of the concept of ‘Western’ Culture have included, rightly or wron ...

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Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Culture of human beings

The culture of human beings can be defined as follows: One common understanding of culture is to see it as consisting of three elements: values, social norms, and artifacts. Values are ideas about what is important. Norms are expectations of how people ought to behave. Each human culture has different methods, often called laws and legal systems, of describing and enforcing its norms, though there are unwritten expectations and informal sanctions too. Artifacts – things, or material culture – derive from the culture's value ...

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Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Value

Value is worth in general, and it is thought to be connected to reasons for certain practices, policies, or actions. Value is "that which one acts to gain and/or keep." Value as defined in economics is only a small subcategory of 'value' in general, as defined in the science of value; also see progressive logic, which illustrates the value logic of civic morality. Value - Economics. In general, the value of something is how much a product or service is worth to someone rel ...

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Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Organizational culture

Organizational culture comprises the attitudes, values, beliefs, norms and customs of an organization. Whereas organizational structure is relatively easy to draw and describe, organizational culture is considered to be less tangible and more difficult to measure. There have been numerous studies in this area. Organizational culture - Influences on organizational culture. National culture is an important influence in culture. Geert Hofstede demonstrated that there are regional differences, and ...

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Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Culture of Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan has a wide mix of ethnic groups and cultures, with the Kyrgyz being the majority group. In 1994, the population of Kyrgyzstan was estimated as being 52 percent ethnic Kyrgyz, 22 percent Russians, 13 percent Uzbek, 3 percent Ukrainian, 2 percent German. The rest of the population was composed of about eighty other nationalities. Of some potential political significance are the Uygurs. That group numbered only about 36,000 in Kyrgyzstan, but about 185,000 lived in neighboring Kazakstan. The Uygurs are also the majority population in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, whose population ...

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Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Culture of Europe

The Culture of Europe might better be described as a series of overlapping cultures of Europe. Whether it be a question of West as opposed to East; Catholicism and Protestantism as opposed to Eastern Orthodoxy; Christianity as opposed to Islam; many have claimed to identify cultural faultlines across the continent. Europe has been a cradle for many cultural innovations and movements, often at odds with each other such as Christian proselytism and Humanism, that have consequently been spread across the globe. The Renaissa ...

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Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Cultural identity

Cultural identity is the (feeling of) identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as she/he is influenced by her/his belonging to a group or culture. Cultural identity - Constructing cultural identity. Common characteristics and ideas may be clear markers of a shared cultural identity but essentially it is determined by difference: we feel we belong to a group, and a group defines itself as a group, by noticing and highlighting differences with other groups and cultures. Any culture defines i ...

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Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Culture of Saudi Arabia

This article is in need of attention. You can help Wikipedia by editing it into a better article. Please also consider changing this notice to be more specific. Culture of Saudi Arabia - Architecture. Many exceptional pieces of modern architecture were created in recent times by eminent architects like Minoru Yamasaki and others. King Fahd Dhahran Air Terminal, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency Head Office, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ...

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Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Clovis culture

The Clovis culture is a prehistoric Native American culture that first appears in the archaeological record of North America around 13,500 years ago, at the end of the last ice age. The culture is named for artifacts found near Clovis, New Mexico, where the first evidence of this tool complex was excavated in 1932. Earlier evidence included a mammoth skeleton with a spear-point in its ribs, found by a cowboy in 1926 near Folsom, New Mexico. Clovis sites have since been identified throughout all of the contiguous ...

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Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Culture of the United States

American culture can be interpreted as being largely based on Western culture and British culture, with influences from the native peoples, Africans brought to the U.S. as slaves, and to a lesser extent other more recent immigrants from Asia and elsewhere. Additionally, due to its large size and the value placed on individualism, there are many integrated but unique subcultures within the U.S. Culture of the United States - Attitudes. The formative years of the United States were the late 18th century when the cou ...

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Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Cultural critic

A cultural critic is a critic of a given culture, usually as a whole and typically on a radical basis; a social critic of a given society, but the overlap is large. Cultural criticism is normally understood to deal with some fundamental perceived problems, rather than minor improvements: it is asserted that things are heading in the wrong direction, or that values are wrongly placed. A cultural critic therefore stands, in relation to intellectual or artistic life, or certain social arrangements or educational prac ...

Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Collectivist and individualist cultures

Cultures are typically divided into two categories: collectivist and individualist. Individualist cultures, such as those of the United States and Western Europe, emphasize personal achievement at the expense of group goals, resulting in a strong sense of competition. Collectivist cultures, such as those of China, Korea, and Japan, emphasize family and work group goals. Collectivism and individualism deeply pervade cultures. People simply take their culture's stance for granted. In the U.S., everything from 'self-serve' ...

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Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Cultural Mormons

Cultural Mormon is a word describing someone who is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, usually born into the Church, but who does not believe some (or all) of its doctrines, or one who does not follow some (or all) of its practices. Cultural Mormons do not necessarily hold "Anti-Mormon" sentiments and they often support the goals of the Church and find value in some of its teachings and practices. Many remain members of the Church for life. However, other Cultural Mormons consider their status to ...

Culture - Culture as values norms and artifacts: Encyclopedia - Culture of Mexico

The culture of Mexico reflects the complexity of Mexico's history through the blending of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican civilizations and the culture of Spain, imparted during Spain's 300-year colonization of Mexico. More recently, influences from the United States have shaped Mexican culture, and to a lesser extent, influences from Europe, Africa, and Asia. Culture of Mexico - Language. Culture of Mexico - Native languages. Spanish is the official and predominant language of Mexico ...