culture

Also known as cultures, cultural activity

Culture ( or ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, attitudes, and habits of the individuals in these groups. Culture often originates from or is attributed to a specific region or location.

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Culture is a concept described by the Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. It is studied by cultural history, ethnography, anthropology, and cultural studies. The subject has parts including cultural rights, human behavior, a belief system, and art. It manifests as mores and social norms and possesses the characteristic of a cultural universal. Culture is different from cultural heritage and is partially coincident with itself.

The topic is associated with the geography of cultural geography and its history is known as cultural history. It is named after cult, Ur, and cultivation. The subject is maintained by WikiProject Culture, WikiProject Anthropology, WikiProject Psychology, and WikiProject Sociology. It appears in the main Wikimedia portal Portal:Culture and the main category Category:Culture. A PubMed query for culture yields a count of 2,402,120. The topic is referenced by 5,538 other encyclopedia articles.

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Research

2,402,120 papers

How culture affects the way in which psychopathologies manifest in behavior: The case of Confucianism in China.ReviewThe International journal of social psychiatry · 2024Colzato L, Zhang L, Zhang W et al.DOI: 10.1177/00207640241262716
Aging, culture, and cognition.ReviewThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 1999Park DC, Nisbett R, Hedden TDOI: 10.1093/geronb/54b.2.p75
Culture(s).Preventive medicine · 2012Morabia A, Costanza MCDOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.10.013
Culture and eating disorders classification.ReviewThe International journal of eating disorders · 2007Becker AEDOI: 10.1002/eat.20435
Cultural influences on dietary choices.ReviewProgress in cardiovascular diseases · 2025Jayasinghe S, Byrne NM, Hills APDOI: 10.1016/j.pcad.2025.02.003
Culture-specific delusions. Sense and nonsense in cultural context.ReviewThe Psychiatric clinics of North America · 1995Gaines AD
Culture's Influence on Stressors, Parental Socialization, and Developmental Processes in the Mental Health of Children of Immigrants.ReviewAnnual review of clinical psychology · 2018Kim SY, Schwartz SJ, Perreira KM et al.DOI: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-050817-084925
Culture, brain death, and transplantation.ReviewProgress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) · 2003Bowman KW, Richard SADOI: 10.1177/152692480301300308

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Encyclopedic overview

16 sections

Contents

Description
Etymology
Change
Early modern discourses
German Romanticism
English Romanticism
Anthropology
Sociology
Early researchers and development of cultural sociology
Cultural studies
Psychology
Protection of culture
See also
References
Sources
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Humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, which is shown by the diversity of cultures across societies. A cultural norm codifies acceptable conduct in society; it serves as a guideline for behavior, dress, language, and demeanor in a situation, which serves as a template for expectations in a social group. Accepting only a monoculture in a social group can bear risks, just as a single species can wither in the face of environmental change, for lack of functional responses to such change. Thus in military culture, valor is counted as a typical behavior for an individual, and duty, honor, and loyalty to the social group are regarded as virtues or functional responses in the continuum of conflict. In religion, analogous attributes can be identified in a social group.

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