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Cultural framework

Cultural framework is a term used in social science to explain, traditions, value systems, myths and symbols that are prevalent in a given society. This society may have multiple cultural frameworks. Usually concepts of culture are mixed, as indi ...

Genre-busting

"Genre-busting" is a term used sometimes in reviews of written work, music, and visual arts and refers to the author or artists the opportunity to cross two or more established styles. For example, in writing, to combine the horror genre with Wes ...

High culture

High culture includes the cultural objects of aesthetic value that society collectively read as an exemplary of art. It may also include intellectual work is considered the highest philosophical, historical or literary values, and education that ...

High-context and low-context cultures

In anthropology, high context culture and low context culture is a measure of how clear the messages in the culture, and the importance of context in communication. High and low context cultures fall on a continuum that describes how a person com ...

Highbrow

Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, "highbrow" is synonymous with the mind, as an adjective it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture. The word draws its metonymy from the pseudoscience of phrenology, and was ...

Homo faber

Homo Faber is the notion that people are able to control their destiny and their environment in the use of tools

Human interactions with microbes

Human interaction with microbes include both practical and symbolic use of microbes and negative interactions in the form of humans, Pets and diseases of plants. The practical use of microbes in ancient times, began with fermentation of food, bre ...

Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected by both physical and legal rights in municipal and international law. They are commonly understood as inalienable fundamenta ...

Hypermobility (travel)

Hypermobile travelers are "highly mobile individuals" who take "frequent trips, often over large distances". They make up "the lions share of the total mileage, especially air". These people make a significant contribution to the overall total al ...

Cultural identity

Cultural identity is the identity or feeling of belonging to a group. It is part of self-concept persons self-perception and the attitude to nationality, ethnicity, religion, social class, generation, locality or any social group that has its own ...

Cultural imperialism

Cultural imperialism also called cultural colonialism involves the cultural aspects of imperialism." Imperialism” here refers to the creation and maintenance of unequal relationships between civilizations, in favor of a more powerful civilization ...

Individualistic culture

Individualistic culture is a society characterized by individualism, the priorities and emphasis of the individual over the whole group. Individualistic cultures are oriented around themselves, to be independent and not to identify with the psych ...

Cultural institution

Cultural institution or culture is the organization within the framework of the culture / subculture that works for the preservation and development of culture. The term is used especially in public and charitable organizations, but its range of ...

Intercultural communication

Intercultural communication is the discipline that studies the connection between different cultures and social groups, and how culture affects communication. It describes a wide range of communication processes and problems that naturally arise ...

Interculturalism

Interculturalism refers to support for cross-cultural dialogue and challenging self-segregation tendencies in the culture. Intercultural communication involves going beyond passive acceptance of a multicultural fact of multiple cultures effective ...

Languaculture

Languaculture is a term meaning that the language includes not only elements such as grammar and vocabulary, but also past knowledge, local and cultural information, habits and behaviors. The term was created by the American anthropologist Michae ...

Legal culture

Legal culture is characterized as temporary outcomes of interactions and occur in accordance with the challenge and response paradigm. Analysis of the main legal paradigms Shape the characteristics of individual and distinctive legal cultures. "C ...

Low culture

"Low culture" is a derogatory term for forms of popular culture that have mass appeal. Its opposite is "high culture", which can also be offensive. It was said of theorists of culture as high culture and low culture are subcultures.

Cultural memory

Because the memory is not just an individual, private experience but is also part of the collective domain, cultural memory has become a topic in historiography and cultural studies. These emphasize the process of cultural memory and its implicat ...

Middlebrow

The term middlebrow describes an easily accessible art, usually literature, and people who use art to acquire culture and class. First used by the British satire magazine punch in 1925, middlebrow term intermediary "brow" descriptor between highb ...

Occidentalism

Westernism refers to and defines the views of the Western world in two ways: as inhuman stereotypes of the Western world, Europe, America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Israel, and as an ideological representation of the West is occidenta ...

Official culture

Official culture is the culture that receives social legitimation or institutional support in a given society. Official culture is usually identified with bourgeoisie culture. For a revolutionary, guy Debord, official culture is a "rigged game", ...

Peng's Coefficient

Pan coefficient is an economic term that refers to the proportion of individuals spending on culture and the spirit of products and services such as books, cinema, Opera, concert, travel, training and so forth to his / her total expenditure. The ...

Philosophy of culture

In the 19th century, humanists such as English poet and essayist Matthew Arnold, 1822-1888 used the word "culture" to refer to an ideal of human refinement, of "the best that has been thought and said in the world". This concept of culture is com ...

Primitive culture

Primitive culture book 1871 Edward Burnett Tylor. According to Taylor, the defining characteristic of primitive cultures is the large number of free time than in more complex societies. In 1953, John Carothers, colonial psychiatrist who previousl ...

Purple economy

The purple economy is a part of economy that contributes to sustainable development by promoting the cultural potential of goods and services. Purple economy refers to taking into account cultural aspects in the economy. This means that the econo ...

Reshaping Cultural Policies

Reorganization of cultural policy is a series of report published by UNESCO, which monitors the implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions. The UNESCO Convention of 2005 encour ...

Resistance through culture

Resistance through culture is a form of non-conformism. This is not an open dissident, but a discreet position. A revolt "so well hidden that it seems to exist" is a quest "to extend the boundaries of tolerance, either by adopting a line consider ...

Semiotics of culture

Semiotics of culture is a field of research in semiotics that attempts to define culture from semiotic perspective and as a type of symbolic activities of man, the creation of symbols and a way to give meaning to everything around. So here cultur ...

Culture and social cognition

Culture and social cognition is the relationship between human culture and cognitive abilities of the person. Cultural and cognitive evolution offers a unique human cognitive abilities not only due to biological inheritance, but in fact largely d ...

Sophistication

Sophistication has come to mean several things, but its original definition was "denatured or simplify". Today it is often used as a measure of the refinement show your good taste, wisdom and subtlety, not rudeness, stupidity and vulgarity. In th ...

Superficiality

Discourses in philosophy, concerning social relations. What social psychologists call "the principle of superficiality versus depth" has permeated Western culture at least since Plato.

Theology of culture

Theology of culture is the branch of theology that studies the culture and cultural phenomena. It is close to the philosophy of art, but focus more on existentialism and spiritualism. Paul Tillich was the first theologian who wrote about the theo ...

Trademark look

The trademark or signature look characteristic clothes or other distinguishing signs used by a certain character or performer, making the person more recognizable by the public. Policies can also have trademarks, such as the suit of U.S. Presiden ...

Value (ethics)

In ethics indicates the importance of some things or actions in order to determine what best to do and how to live better, or describe the value of different actions. The value system of prohibitory and prescriptive beliefs, they affect the ethic ...

Welfare culture

Welfare culture refers to the behavioral consequences of providing poverty relief for those with low income. Well-being is considered to be one of the types of social protection, which could come in the form of remittances, such as checks, or sub ...

Economy

The economy is the area of production, distribution and trade, and also consumption of goods and services by different agents. To understand in the broadest sense, Economics is defined as a social domain that emphasizes the practices, discourses, ...

Education

Education is a process of learning or acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs and habits. Teaching methods: teaching, training, storytelling, Discussion and directed research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of teach ...

Outline of education

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to education: Education in General sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of a person. In its technical sense edu ...

Academica (charter school)

Academician is a global educational organization, with headquarters in Miami, Florida. As a provider of education services, it services more than 200 public Charter schools in the United States. Academician supported schools characteristics of im ...

Wallace Buttrick

Wallace Buttrick was a Baptist minister who served as secretary, president, and chairman of the General Education Board, and as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation. Wallace Buttrick believed that schools, teachers, and institutions were not n ...

Demerit (school discipline)

A reprimand is a point for students as punishment for bad behavior. At the same time as practice shows, students are given a number of advantages in the beginning of the school year and a certain number of merits are deducted for each offense. Sc ...

Educational architecture

Originally this term was used only for the physical building where the education was given, for example, in school. Later this term is also used for the design of the educational process. Therefore, the education architect can also be someone wit ...

Glossary of education terms

In subsequent articles comprise the Glossary of education terms: Glossary of education terms D–f. Glossary of terms education. Glossary of terms education. Glossary of terms education M–O. Glossary of education terms t–z. Glossary of terms educat ...

IAPCC

IAPCC - international Association for private colleges is a not-for-profit membership organization established in colleges to act as their collective voice representing professional education and training colleges around the world. The Associatio ...

International Day of Education

Education Day is an annual international day celebrations held on 24 January and on education. On 3 December 2018, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring January 24 as the international day of enlightenment, in celebration of the ...

Macabre constant

Terrible constant is an assumption of bias in the assessment of the quality of education, what happens when a Professor unconsciously divide students into three subjective categories - good, average and poor - regardless of their actual objective ...

Van Empel Goldman Foundation

Fund van Empel Goldman is a charity, registered in the Netherlands in the framework of the Fund name van Empel Goldman. A Fund is defined as a Algemeen nut beogende instelling architecture or in English" - public organization” the Dutch tax and c ...

Energy

In physics energy is a quantitative property, which must be passed to the object in order to perform work on, Or to heat the object. Energy is a conserved quantity, the law of conservation of energy States that energy can be converted in form but ...