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Non-material culture. Culture consists of both material culture and non-material culture. Thoughts or ideas that make up a culture are called the non-material culture. [ 1] In contrast to material culture, non-material culture does not include any physical objects or artifacts. Examples of non-material culture include any ideals, ideas, beliefs ...
Symbolic culture is a domain of objective facts whose existence depends, paradoxically, on collective belief. A currency system, for example, exists only for as long as people continue to have faith in it. When confidence in monetary facts collapses, the "facts" themselves suddenly disappear. Much the same applies to citizenship, government ...
High-context and low-context cultures. In anthropology, high-context culture and low-context culture are ends of a continuum of how explicit the messages exchanged in a culture are and how important the context is in communication. The distinction between cultures with high and low contexts is intended to draw attention to variations in both ...
Category. v. t. e. A cultural artifact, or cultural artefact (see American and British English spelling differences ), is a term used in the social sciences, particularly anthropology, [ 1] ethnology [ 2] and sociology [citation needed] for anything created by humans which gives information about the culture of its creator and users. Artifact ...
The difference between material culture and non-material culture is known as cultural lag. The term cultural lag refers to the notion that culture takes time to catch up with technological innovations, and the resulting social problems that are caused by this lag. In other words, cultural lag occurs whenever there is an unequal rate of change ...
Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory is a framework for cross-cultural psychology, developed by Geert Hofstede. It shows the effects of a society's culture on the values of its members, and how these values relate to behavior, using a structure derived from factor analysis. [ 1] Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory.
The sociology of culture, and the related cultural sociology, concerns the systematic analysis of culture, usually understood as the ensemble of symbolic codes used by a member of a society, as it is manifested in the society. For Georg Simmel, culture referred to "the cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have ...
Cultural trait. A cultural trait is a single identifiable material or non-material element within a culture, and is conceivable as an object in itself. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Similar traits can be grouped together as components, or subsystems of culture; [ 4] the terms sociofact and mentifact (or psychofact) [ 5] were coined by biologist Julian Huxley as ...