Concept information
Preferred term
culture (anthropology)
Definition
- Culture is a system created by human activity comprising spiritual, organizational, and material items and expanding within the Earth's nature at the expense of this very nature. People mostly understand human culture in several ways: (1) as an acquired characteristic of human behavior, (2) as a spiritual culture, (3) as a better view of civilization, and (4) as a continuation or refinement of nature. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Culture]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- civilization
- collective self
- collectivistic cultures
- cultural animal
- cultural differences
- cultural identity
- cultural movement
- cultural pluralism
- culture of honor
- erotic plasticity
- independent self-construals
- interdependent self-construals
- moral development
- mortality salience
- objectification theory
- popular culture
- pornography
- regional culture
- relational models theory
- sexual economics theory
- terror management theory
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/culture_(anthropology)
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