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  2. Death and culture - Wikipedia

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    The term is sometimes applied to those who die or are otherwise severely affected in support of a cause, such as soldiers fighting in a war, doctors fighting an epidemic, or people leading civil rights movements. Proclaiming martyrdom is a common way to draw attention to a cause and garner support.

  3. Internalization (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Internalization of ideals might take place following religious conversion, or in the process of, more generally, moral conversion. [5] Internalization is directly associated with learning within an organism (or business) and recalling what has been learned.

  4. Socialization - Wikipedia

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    Humans need social experiences to learn their culture and to survive. [ 4 ] Socialization essentially represents the whole process of learning throughout the life course and is a central influence on the behavior, beliefs, and actions of adults as well as of children.

  5. Mortality salience - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, when linking mortality salience to gender, emotion, and sex, men are more likely to suffer from sexual infidelity, and women are more likely to suffer from emotional infidelity. The results of this study showed that there is a logistic regression revealing a significant three-way interaction between gender, sex value, and mortality ...

  6. Cultural evolution - Wikipedia

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    There began a widespread condemnation of unilinear theory in the late 19th century. Unilinear cultural evolution implicitly assumes that culture was borne out of the United States and Western Europe. That was seen by many to be racist, as it assumed that some individuals and cultures were more evolved than others. [3]

  7. Sociocultural evolution - Wikipedia

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    In the third, humans start using signs and develop logic. [70] In the fourth, they can create symbols and develop language and writing. [70] Advancements in the technology of communication translate into advancements in the economic system and political system, distribution of goods, social inequality and other spheres of social life. He also ...

  8. Sociology of culture - Wikipedia

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    For Georg Simmel, culture referred to "the cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have been objectified in the course of history". Culture in the sociological field is analyzed as the ways of thinking and describing, acting, and the material objects that together shape a group of people's way of life. [1]

  9. Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the ...

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    By 1930–1950, he states that the displacement of the site of death from the home to the hospital accelerated changes in attitude. While for most of history the dying person took his or her last breath in bed, surrounded by loved ones, now, in era of "forbidden death" people are more likely to end their lives alone in a hospital bed. [16]