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Cultural evolution (15440 bytes)
1: ... that anthropologists (see [[anthropology]] and [[cultural anthropology]]) have both promoted and criticized...
5: ...re is no connection between biological and social evolution.
7: ...ning the unit of analysis in accounts of cultural evolution is often difficult or impossible.
9: Today, the concept of cultural evolution continues to be used by academics, especially ant...
11: ...ct, rather than a typical European of that time. Evolution of societies in an ethical direction may well be ...

Han (cultural) (1380 bytes)
2: ! colspan="2" bgcolor="#FFCCCC" | Han (cultural)
18: ''This article is about the Korean cultural sentiment of ''han''. For other meanings of the ...
20: ...orea]]n culture, attributed by some as a national cultural trait. The notion of Han refers to a collective f...

Cultural anthropology (7041 bytes)
1: ...', also called '''social anthropology''' or socio-cultural anthropology, is one of four commonly recognized ...
4: ... had passed through the same stages of [[cultural evolution]].
6: ...aptations to similar environments (see [[cultural evolution]]). Others, like [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]], have a...
8: ...s. They and their students promoted the idea of "cultural relativism," that a person's beliefs and behavior...
10: ...complemented one another. Today almost all socio-cultural anthropologists refer to the work of both sets of...

Cultural movement (9693 bytes)
1: ...ese changes are often reactions against the prior cultural form, which typically has grown stale and repetit...
3: ...ians will be able to find distinctive traces of a cultural movement before its accepted beginning, and there...
5: ...hatever. Similarly for calling out the different cultural forms - art, architecture, philosophy, etc. I al...
37: ...''' - 1830-1905 - Ushered in by the [[Industrial Revolution]] and growing [[Nationalism]] in the world. Bega...
63: * [[Cultural imperialism]]

Cultural imperialism (7294 bytes)
1: ...n and the latter is a smaller, less affluent one. Cultural imperialism can take the form of an active, forma...
7: One of the first known examples of cultural imperialism was extinction of the [[Etruscan civi...
9: ...nts conquered (such as ancient Judea, where Greek cultural imperialism sparked a popular revolt), with the e...
13: === English Cultural Imperialism ===
15: A revealing instance of cultural imperialism is the [[Prayer Book rebellion]] of [...

Cultural industry (12463 bytes)
1: "Cultural industry" (also Culture Industry) is a term origi...
27: ...: for the late Adorno of Aesthetic Theory, "high" cultural productions (such as, for the sake of example, th...
29: ...ncreasingly, Fundamentalism is distributed by the cultural industry in various forms, and in some states of ...
63: ...ic to the view; there seems to be no CONSERVATIVE cultural theory of mass culture, although at times, Cathol...

Cultural controls (285 bytes)
1: In [[agriculture]] '''cultural control''' is the practice of modifying the growi...

Cultural norm (2459 bytes)

Cultural determinism (3176 bytes)
1: '''Cultural determinism''' is a term used to describe the con...
5: ...etermines outlook and cultural roles. The idea of cultural determinism is extremely common: numerous societi...
7: Cultural determinism is not limited to one part of the [[p...
9: == Examples of cultural determinism ==
15: ...testantism]] and [[Capitalism]], arguing that the cultural aspects of religion, including the [[Protestant w...

Cultural literacy (1395 bytes)
1: ...eation of a communal language and a "groupthink." Cultural literacy or the "Core Knowledge" movement stresse...
3: ...phical boundaries but acts to unite people in one cultural framework.
9: ...http://www.bartleby.com/59/ The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy]

Cultural subsidy (695 bytes)
1: ...ome public policy purpose in culture (e.g. [[multiculturalism]], [[bilingualism]], [[Canadian content|Canadi...
3: ... their supporters. A common means of providing a cultural subsidy is to have public broadcasters pay for pr...

Cultural mosaic (2569 bytes)
1: ...t co-exist within [[Canada|Canadian]] society. A cultural mosaic is contrasted to the notion of a [[melting...
4: ...s become progressively more multi-ethnic and multicultural. The Introduction to the report wrote that:
6: ...e of immigrants adding to the nation’s ethnic and cultural composition. Half a century ago, most immigrants ...
8: ...ion on ethnic ancestry, reflecting a varied, rich cultural mosaic as the nation started the new millennium.[...
18: ...oimm/canada.cfm Statistics Canada ''Canada’s ethnocultural portrait: The changing mosaic'']

Cultural radicalism (268 bytes)
1: ... [[culture war]] between social conservatives and cultural radicals.
3: For opponents of cultural radicalism, read [[culture war speech]].

Cultural relativism (35310 bytes)
1: '''Cultural relativism''' is the principle that an individual...
3: Cultural relativism involves specific epistemological and ...
5: ==The Epistemological Origins of Cultural Relativism==
6: ...temological claims that led to the development of cultural relativism have their origins in the German Enlig...
8: ...t only by universal structures, but by particular cultural structures as well. The great explorer and natur...

Cultural Revolution (38876 bytes)
1: ...rev.jpg|thumb|300px|A poster during the Cultural Revolution]]
2: ... Four]] in [[1976]]. This dating of the Cultural Revolution is significant and represented a victory for supp...
4: ...69 was less chaotic, the leaders of the Cultural Revolution proper remained in power and this is now widely c...
11: ...ction of [[steel]] and to raise [[agriculture|agricultural]] production to twice [[1957]] levels.
13: ...like rakes were melted down for steel, making agricultural production impossible. This led to declines in pr...

Cultural bias (3927 bytes)
1: ...thods and theories to compensate for or eliminate cultural bias.
3: Cultural bias occurs when people of a culture make assumpt...
5: ...culture, and thus can be reasonably isolated as a cultural bias. See [[goodness and value theory]].
11: ... have to be validated to prevent degradation from cultural biases.
25: ...o violated the norms were "crazy." He considered cultural biases of this sort to be much more strongly held...

Cultural analysis (189 bytes)
1: '''Cultural analysis''' is a stream of investigation which se...

Cultural genocide (1726 bytes)
1: ...sed to describe the deliberate destruction of the cultural heritage of a nation for political or military re...
5: ...ghly charged word as [[genocide]] to describe any cultural change, especially since Chinese policies in Tibe...
7: ...chitecturally priceless city by carpet bombing as cultural genocide.

Cultural diffusion (133 bytes)

Cultural behavior (6125 bytes)
1: '''Cultural behavior''' is behavior exhibited by human beings...
5: ...inly a complex feat of engineering, but it is not cultural. This behaviour is instinctive, built into the an...
15: For a behaviour to be considered cultural it must be shared extragenetically; that is, it m...
17: ...ugh the group. This is what we could call a proto-cultural behaviour. It is learned, it involves concepts an...
21: ...stick and stuck to it. This fits our criteria for cultural behaviour. It is not genetically programmed. Not ...

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