Encyclopedia - Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture - Defining Culture
Different definitions of culture reflect different theories for understanding - or criteria for evaluating - human activity. Sir Edward B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture - Defining Culture
Different definitions of culture reflect different theories for understanding - or criteria for evaluating - human activity. Sir Edward B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture War: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture War - Culture Wars: The Struggle To Define America 1991
The expression gained wide use with the 1991 publication of Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America by James Davison Hunter. In that...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture: Encyclopedia - Culture
The word culture, from the Latin colere, with its root meaning "to cultivate", generally refers to patterns of human activity and the sym...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture War: Encyclopedia - Culture War
The term "culture war" (sometimes pluralized as "the culture wars") has been used to describe ideologically-driven and often strident con...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - North Pole: Encyclopedia - North Pole
The North Pole is the northernmost point on any planet. There are various ways of defining a planet's North Pole. Earth's North Pole, how...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cultural Conservatism: Encyclopedia - Cultural Conservatism
Cultural conservatism is conservatism with respect to culture. This term is increasingly used in political debate, but is rather ill-defi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cultural Identity: 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 belon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of South Africa: Encyclopedia - Culture Of South Africa
There is no single Culture of South Africa. As South Africa is so ethnically diverse, it is not surprising that there are vast cultural d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Human Beings: 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: ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cultural Muslim: Encyclopedia - Cultural Muslim
Generally, a Muslim is defined by faith in the religion of Islam; however, in the modern world there are religiously unobservant, agnosti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Scotland: Encyclopedia - Culture Of Scotland
The culture of Scotland is the national culture of Scotland (which has a civic culture somewhat distinct from that of the rest of the Bri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Romania: Encyclopedia - Culture Of Romania
Literature Music Fine arts Cuisine Folklore Mythology Spirituality Actors Composers Painters Poets Writers Castles Museums Religious UNE...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannabis Culture: Encyclopedia - Cannabis Culture
The term cannabis culture can connote different meanings to different people, and many would argue that the diverse cultures and ages of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Denmark: Encyclopedia - Culture Of Denmark
The Culture of Denmark is inherently hard to define. None the less, there are some general characteristics often associated with Danish s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Theory: Encyclopedia - Culture Theory
Culture theory is the branch of anthropology and other related social science disciplines (e.g., sociology) that seeks to define the heur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Finland: Encyclopedia - Culture Of Finland
The Culture of Finland is inherently hard to define. However, there are some general characteristics often associated with Finnish societ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - London: Encyclopedia - London
London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. London produces 17% of the UK's GDP, and is one of the world's major bus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Answers In Genesis: Encyclopedia - Answers In Genesis
Answers in Genesis (AiG) is a not-for-profit Christian apologetics ministry with a particular focus on Young Earth Creationism, and a lit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Pueblo Peoples: Encyclopedia - Ancient Pueblo Peoples
Ancient Pueblo People, or Ancestral Puebloans is a preferred term for the cultural group of people often known as Anasazi who are the anc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture War: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture War - Culture Wars: The Struggle To Define America 1991
The expression gained wide use with the 1991 publication of Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America by James Davison Hunter. In that...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture War: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture War - After 9/11
The national mood post-9/11 had been compared by some to the time of the start of the Great Depression. Others disputed that, arguing tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture War: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture War - Campus Culture Wars
From the point of view of American academia, the 'culture wars' and their alignments were nothing new — rather they were perceived as a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture War: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture War - After 9/11
The national mood post-9/11 had been compared by some to the time of the start of the Great Depression. Others disputed that, arguing tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture War: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture War - Fourth Turning 1996
The term Culture Wars was adopted by William Strauss and Neil Howe in Fourth Turning (1996), to describe the historical period from 1984 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture War: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture War - Fourth Turning 1996
The term Culture Wars was adopted by William Strauss and Neil Howe in Fourth Turning (1996), to describe the historical period from 1984 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture War: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture War - Buchanan's 1992 Speech
See also culture war speech During the same period, paleoconservative commentator Patrick J. "Pat" Buchanan mounted a campaign for the Re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture War: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture War - Campus Culture Wars
From the point of view of American academia, the 'culture wars' and their alignments were nothing new — rather they were perceived as a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture War: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture War - Buchanan's 1992 Speech
See also culture war speech During the same period, paleoconservative commentator Patrick J. "Pat" Buchanan mounted a campaign for the Re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation X: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation X - Global Factors Defining Generation X
Japan has its own version of Generation X. Developing countries, too, have a Generation X, but it differs from that in the West, due to p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation X: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation X - Beginnings
The generation was traditionally begun at 1965, when North American birth rates had dropped into what is frequently called the "Baby Bust...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation X: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation X - The History Of The Term
The term was coined as a result of a 1964 study of British youth by Jane Deverson. Initially, Deverson was asked by the editor of the mag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation X: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation X - Global Factors Defining Generation X
Japan has a generation with similar characteristics to Generation X. Developing countries, too, have a Generation X, but it differs from ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation X: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation X - Beginnings
The generation was traditionally begun at 1965, when North American birth rates had dropped into what is frequently called the "Baby Bust...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mtv Generation: Encyclopedia Ii - Mtv Generation - Global Factors Defining The Mtv Generation
Most notable factors relevant to the MTV Generation is the overall nihilistic attitude of the teenagers growing up through the 1990s havi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cultural Identity: Encyclopedia Ii - 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 fe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Criteria Of Human Death
Human death can be defined by three intrinsically different but overlapping domains: biological, legal, and religious. These different do...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mtv Generation: Encyclopedia Ii - Mtv Generation - Overview Of The Cultural Impact Of The Media Upon The Mtv Generation
The teens of the MTV Generation who grew up in the 1990s have also been referred to as the Doom Generation, picked up from Gregg Araki's ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cultural Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Cultural Conservatism - Cultural Criticism
The various ways in which the term cultural conservatism are used are potentially unified, if one assumes firstly that the scope is that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Print Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Print Culture - The Development Of Print
Prior to print: Oral culture was all that was existed. Oral culture gradually found the need to store what was said for long periods of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sexuality And Gender Identity-based Cultures: Encyclopedia Ii - Sexuality And Gender Identity-based Cultures - Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity-based Cultures Lgbt
Sexual minorities defined by sexual orientation and gender identity — gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people — are often se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mad Scientist: Encyclopedia Ii - Mad Scientist - Defining Characteristics
Mad scientists are typically characterized by obsessive behaviour and the employment of extremely dangerous or unorthodox methods. They o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation X: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation X - Culture
Generation X - Music. Gen X has tended to like "harder" forms of rock music than the Boomers did, although many also liked bubblegum po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of South Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of South Africa - Main Cultural Differences
Because of the legacy of Apartheid segregation, many cultural differences correspond closely to the racial groups defined by Apartheid (B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - London: Encyclopedia Ii - London - Modern London
Today Greater London comprises the City of London and the 32 London boroughs (including the City of Westminster). 12 of these boroughs ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Print Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Print Culture - Print Culture And The Revolution
Print culture - A profound impact. Numerous eras throughout history have been defined through the use of print culture. The American Re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - London: Encyclopedia Ii - London - Modern London
Today Greater London comprises the City of London and the 32 London boroughs (including the City of Westminster). 12 of these boroughs ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation Y: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation Y - The Moments That Defined Generation Y
Perhaps the best way to define the boundaries of this and other generations in the United States is by considering dominant national even...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation Y: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation Y - The Moments That Defined Generation Y
Perhaps the best way to define the boundaries of this and other generations in the United States is by considering dominant national even...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation Y: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation Y - Relationship With Other Living Generations
Gen Y are usually children to the Baby Boomers and rarely early Gen Xers (about 1950 to 1969). Because of this they have a tendency to sh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation Y: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation Y - Relationship With Other Living Generations
Gen Y are usually children to the Baby Boomers and sometimes of early Gen Xers (not uncommon for kids born in 1991 and afterwards). Becau...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homomasculinity: Encyclopedia Ii - Homomasculinity - History
Homomasculine subculture as a distinct modern entity only developed with the rise of Western masculine mass culture in the mid-20th centu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homomasculinity: Encyclopedia Ii - Homomasculinity - History
Homomasculine subculture as a distinct modern entity only developed with the rise of Western masculine mass culture in the mid-20th centu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Human Beings: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Human Beings - Humanism
Humanism as a philosophy defines a socio-political doctrine the bounds of which are not constrained by those of locally developed culture...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hohokam: Encyclopedia Ii - Hohokam - Cultural Divisions
Cultural labels such as Hohokam, Ancient Pueblo (Anasazi), Mogollon or Patayan are used by archaeologists to define cultural differences ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture-specific Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture-specific Syndrome - Western Medical Perspectives
An interesting aspect of culture-specific syndromes is how real they are-- characterizing them as "imaginary" is as inaccurate as charact...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation X: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation X - Culture
Generation X - Music. Gen X has tended to like "harder" forms of rock music than the Boomers did, although many also liked bubblegum po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Fiji: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Fiji - Hierarchy
Fijian society is very communal, with great importance attached to the family unit, the village, and the vanua (land). A hierarchy of chi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bucharest: Encyclopedia Ii - Bucharest - Culture
Bucharest's has a diverse and growing cultural scene, with cultural life exhibited in a number of various fields, including the visual ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hacker Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Hacker Culture - Artifacts And Customs
The hacker culture is defined by shared work and play focused around central artifacts. Some of these artifacts are very large; the Inter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Pueblo Peoples: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Pueblo Peoples - Cultural Divisions
Archaeological cultural units such as "Anasazi", Hohokam, Patayan or Mogollon are used by archaeologists to define material culture simil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation X: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation X - Outlook
Despite their generational attitude against collectivism, Generation Xers take some group pride in their generation. In math, "X" stands ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Literature
The trebecki works in Trillville literary tradition recorded in writing are the epic poems of Homer and Hesiod. Early Greek lyric poetry,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Greece - Literature
Main article: Greek literature The trebecki works in Trillville literary tradition recorded in writing are the epic poems of Homer and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation Y: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation Y - Music And Subcultures
Generation Y - Background. Generations have often used music to set themselves apart, testing out values, rebelling against their paren...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation Y: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation Y - Music And Subcultures
Generation Y - Background. Generations have often used music to set themselves apart, testing out values, rebelling against their paren...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation Y: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation Y - Generation Y In The United States
Most have few memories of the Cold War (apart from perhaps action movies, toys, or video games with such themes) and came of age during t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation Y: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation Y - Generation Y In The United States
Most have few memories of the Cold War (apart from perhaps action movies, toys, or video games with such themes) and came of age during t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Human Beings: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Human Beings - Language
The faculty of speech may be a defining feature of humanity, probably predating phylogenetic separation of the modern population. (See Pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - North Pole: Encyclopedia Ii - North Pole - Defining North Poles In Astronomy
Astronomers define the north "geographic" pole of a planet or other object in the solar system by the planetary pole that is in the same ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - North Pole: Encyclopedia Ii - North Pole - Defining The North Pole Of Earth
The North Pole, the northernmost point on the Earth, can be defined in four different ways. Only the first two definitions are commonly u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - North Pole: Encyclopedia Ii - North Pole - Defining North Poles In Astronomy
Astronomers define the north "geographic" pole of a planet or other object in the solar system by the planetary pole that is in the same ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ecuador: Encyclopedia Ii - Ecuador - Culture
Main article: Culture of Ecuador Ecuador's mainstream culture is defined by Ecuador's mestizo majority and, like their ancestry, is a mix...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - North Pole: Encyclopedia Ii - North Pole - Cultural References To The North Pole
In the North American version of the Santa Claus mythos, the North Pole is the place where Santa Claus lives, and where his workshop is l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - North Pole: Encyclopedia Ii - North Pole - Cultural References To The North Pole
In the North American version of the Santa Claus mythos, the North Pole is the place where Santa Claus lives, and where his workshop is l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - North Pole: Encyclopedia Ii - North Pole - Geographic North Pole
The Geographic North Pole, also known as True North, is close to the northern point at which the Earth's axis of rotation meets the surfa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Culture
Main articles: Culture of human beings and Culture Culture is defined here as a set of distinctive material, intellectual, emotional, and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation X: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation X - The History Of The Term
The term was coined as a result of a 1964 study of British youth by Jane Deverson. Initially, Deverson was asked by the editor of the mag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generation X: Encyclopedia Ii - Generation X - Outlook
Despite their generational attitude against collectivism, Generation Xers take some group pride in their generation. In math, "X" stands ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mtv Generation: Encyclopedia Ii - Mtv Generation - Differences With Generation Y
It has been noted that those born in the late 70s and early 80s exhibit certain societal and cultural traits, habits and preferences that...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mtv Generation: Encyclopedia Ii - Mtv Generation - The Doomed Generation
An overview of the crime and drug culture related to the XY Gen throughout the 1990s with added insight on the media antagonism that deve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Open Source: Encyclopedia Ii - Open Source - Society And Culture
Open source as applied to culture defines a culture in which fixations are made generally available. Participants in such an open source ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westernisation: Encyclopedia Ii - Westernisation - Definition Of The West
Main article: Western civilization Westernisation - Territorial. The West was originally defined as Western Europe, but most modern use...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - London: Encyclopedia Ii - London - Defining London
Today, "London" usually refers to the conurbation known as Greater London, which is divided into thirty-two London Boroughs and the City ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - London: Encyclopedia Ii - London - Defining London
Today, "London" usually refers to the conurbation known as Greater London, which is divided into thirty-two London Boroughs and the City ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Minoan Civilization: Encyclopedia Ii - Minoan Civilization - Art
The great collection of Minoan art is in the museum at Heraklion, near Knossos on the north shore of Crete. Minoan art, with other remain...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - London: Encyclopedia Ii - London - Demographics
London had about 860,000 people in 1801 (in comparison, Paris had about 670,000 in 1802), and the population of Edo (modern-day Tokyo, Ja...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - North Pole: Encyclopedia Ii - North Pole - Day And Night
During the summer months, the North Pole experiences twenty four hours of daylight but during the winter months the North Pole experience...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - North Pole: Encyclopedia Ii - North Pole - Magnetic Declination
Magnetic north is determined by the earth’s magnetic field and is not the same as true (or geographic) north. The location of the magne...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - North Pole: Encyclopedia Ii - North Pole - Magnetic North
Magnetic North is one of several locations on the Earth's surface known as the "North Pole". Its definition, as the point where the geoma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - North Pole: Encyclopedia Ii - North Pole - Geomagnetic North Pole
The Geomagnetic North Pole is the pole of the Earth's geomagnetic field closest to true north. The first-order approximation of the Earth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mtv Generation: Encyclopedia Ii - Mtv Generation - An Ambitious Generation Of Drifting Dreamers
Barbara Schneider and David Stevenson, in their book, The Ambitious Generation: America's Teenagers, Motivated but Directionless acknowle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture - Sample List Of Cultures
Culture - Cultures of contemporary countries and regions. Main article: List of national culture articles. Albania Angola Australia Be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture - Sample List Of Cultures
Culture - Cultures of contemporary countries and regions. Main article: List of national culture articles. Albania Angola Australia Be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture - Cultural Change
Cultures, by predisposition, both embrace and resist change dependence of culture traits. For example, men and women have complementary r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture - Cultural Change
Cultures, by predisposition, both embrace and resist change dependence of culture traits. For example, men and women have complementary r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture - Propagating Culture
Insofar as culture grows and changes naturally within human society, it requires little or no formal propagation. Families or age-based p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture - Propagating Culture
Insofar as culture grows and changes naturally within human society, it requires little or no formal propagation. Families or age-based p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture - Cultural Studies
Cultural studies developed in the late 20th century, in part through the re-introduction of Marxist thought into sociology, and in part t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture - Cultural Studies
Cultural studies developed in the late 20th century, in part through the re-introduction of Marxist thought into sociology, and in part t...   » Read the article