cultural patterns
1Cultural identity — can be expressed through external attributes Cultural identity is the identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as one is influenced by one s belonging to a group or culture. Cultural identity is similar to and has overlaps with …
2cultural relativism — Cultural relativists assert that concepts are socially constructed and vary cross culturally. These concepts may include such fundamental notions as what is considered true, morally correct, and what constitutes knowledge or even reality itself.… …
3Cultural relativism — Compare moral relativism, aesthetic relativism, social constructionism, and cognitive relativism. Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual human s beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual s… …
4CULTURAL LIFE — Introduction The movement for the return to Zion which emerged as a force at the end of the 19th century was based on a variety of motivations, including the political – the demand for an independent homeland where the Jews could forge their own… …
5Cultural ecology — studies the relationship between a given society and its natural environment as well as the life forms and ecosystems that support its lifeways[citation needed]. This may be carried out diachronically (examining entities that existed in different …
6Cultural assimilation — is a socio political response to demographic multi ethnicity that supports or promotes the assimilation of ethnic minorities into the dominant culture. The term assimilation is often used with regard to immigrants and various ethnic groups who… …
7cultural anthropology — cultural anthropologist. the branch of anthropology dealing with the origins, history, and development of human culture, and including in its scope the fields of archaeology, ethnology, and ethnography. Also called social anthropology. Cf.… …
8Cultural dissonance — (education, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies) is an uncomfortable sense of discord, disharmony, confusion, or conflict experienced by people in the midst of change in their cultural environment. The changes are often unexpected,… …
9Cultural Studies — (engl.; wörtlich übersetzt „Kulturstudien“) sind ein Forschungsparadigma der Sozial und Geisteswissenschaften. Der fächerübergreifende Forschungsansatz vereint Soziologie, Filmtheorie, Literaturtheorie und Kulturanthropologie. Cultural studies… …
10Cultural Detective — is a core process for improving collaboration, productivity, satisfaction and effectiveness in an international or multicultural environment. The project is noteworthy for two primary reasons: it is a collaborative project of over 130 worldwide… …
