> [!infobox] <s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 7 topics, 16 evergreens</em></s> #### <s class="topic-title">[[Culture]]</s> Culture is a much debated term and it's definition often depends on the perspective of the person trying to study it. " > ![[10_Sources/books - Behave#^304866734]] > ![[10_Sources/books - Behave#^304866745]] [[Culture]] is the synthesis of our collective imagination, or [[Imagined reality]] and our shared [[understanding]]. If we have these two things with someone, then we share a culture. [[Gen Z uses irony to navigate post internet communication]] is an example of this. > [!wikipedia] [Culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture) > > Culture is an umbrella term which encompasses the [[social behavior]] and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups. > > 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 the change. > > Thus in military culture, valor is counted a typical behavior for an individual and duty, honor, and loyalty to the social group are counted as virtues or functional responses in the continuum of conflict. In the practice of religion, analogous attributes can be identified in a social group. > ##### ^dataviews > [!dataview]+ Related unlinked notes > > - [[Culture affects stress levels around discussing interpersonal influence]] > - [[How did Indigenous American culture change between first contact with Europeans and full colonization]] > - [[How do different cultures enforce social control]] > - [[Most cultural differences are rooted in material differences]] > - [[Most traditional food culture is relatively new]] > - [[Roman citizens preserved Roman culture after the empire fell]] > - [[Social order is built off of a shared belief in an imagined reality]] > [!dataview]- Other unlinked mentions > > - [[topics]] > - [[Animism]] > - [[Autism]] > - [[Cultural Evolution]] > - [[anthropology]] > - [[human behavior]] > - [[morality]] > - [[Accepting responsibility is not only about your actions]] > - [[Communities are support systems]] > - [[Deconstructing your faith is like climbing through a jungle canopy]] > - [[Farming domesticated humans]] > - [[How do empires form]] > - [[How does culture effect social incentives]] > - [[Social media creates a false sense of unbreakable, expansive, and influential communities]] > - [[When luxury becomes a necessity it is no longer a luxury]] > - [[You can't blame people for failing to rise above their circumstances]]