Outline of culture

Outline of culture

The following outline is provided as an overview and topical guide to culture:

Culture – the set of patterns of human activity within a society or social group and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. Customs, laws, popular styles, social standards, and traditions are all examples of cultural elements.

Nature of culture

Main article: Culture

Elements of culture

  • The Arts
    • Fine arts
    • Visual arts –
      • Architecture – art and science of designing buildings.
      • Crafts – activities and hobbies that are related to making things with one's hands and skill.
      • Drawing – visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. As a verb, it is the act of making marks on a surface so as to create an image, form or shape. As a noun, it is the image produced, or the visual art form itself.
      • Film – also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects. The process of filmmaking has developed into an art form and industry.
      • Painting – the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium[1] to a surface (support base) with a brush or other objects. The term describes both the act and the result of the action.
      • Photography
      • Sculpture
    • Performing arts
  • Celebration
  • Entertainment –
  • Language
  • Politics –
  • Religion
  • Traditions –

Types of cultures

Cultures by aspect

  • Bicycle culture – a culture that supports, encourages, and has high bicycle usage
  • Consumer culture – a society based on consumerism
  • High context culture – a culture with the tendency use high context messages, resulting in catering towards in-groups
  • Horse culture – a community whose day to day life revolves around the herding and breeding of horses
  • Low context culture – culture with a tendency not to cater towards in-groups
  • Remix culture – a society which allows and encourages derivative works
  • Participatory culture – a culture in which private persons (the public) do not act as consumers only, but also as contributors or producers (prosumers – )
  • Permission culture – a society in which copyright restrictions are pervasive and enforced to the extent that any and all uses of copyrighted works need to be explicitly leased
  • Primitive culture – a community that lacks major signs of economic development or modernity

Cultural cross-sections

Subcultures

Types of subcultures

Specific subcultures

Cultures of the world

Area studies

Cultures by ethnicity or ethnic sphere

Cultures of continents and major geopolitical regions

(non-continents are italicized)

Cultures by political divisions of the World

(arranged by continent or major geopolitical region)

Cultures of Africa

  • Dependencies in Africa
    • Culture of the British Indian Ocean Territory (UK)
    • Culture of Mayotte (France)
    • Culture of Réunion (France)
    • Culture of Saint Helena (UK)
    • Culture of the Canary Islands (Spain)
    • Culture of Ceuta (Spain)
    • Culture of Madeira (Portugal)
    • Culture of Melilla (Spain)
    • Culture of Socotra (Yemen)
    • Culture of Puntland
    • Culture of Somaliland
    • Culture of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Culture of Antarctica

  • No political divisions, just some scattered outposts

Cultures of Asia

Cultures of the Caucasus

(a region considered to be in both Asia and Europe, or between them)

  • North Caucasus
    • Parts of Russia
      • Culture of Chechnya
      • Culture of Ingushetia
      • Culture of Dagestan
      • Culture of Adyghea
      • Culture of Kabardino-Balkaria
      • Culture of Karachai-Cherkessia
      • Culture of North Ossetia
      • Culture of Krasnodar Krai
      • Culture of Stavropol Krai

Cultures of Europe

Cultures of North America

Cultures of Oceania

Cultures of South America

Cultures of the South Atlantic

  • Culture of Ascension Island
  • Culture of Saint Helena
  • Culture of Tristan da Cunha

History of culture

Cultural histories

By period

By region

By subject

Historical cultures

Politics of culture

Sociology of culture

Academic fields

  • Archaeology – studies the physical aspects of cultures.
  • Cultural studies – holistic academic field concerning the political nature of contemporary culture. It seeks to understand the ways in which meaning is generated and disseminated through practices, beliefs, and political, economic, or social structures within a given culture.
  • Popular culture studies – generally considered a combination of communication studies and cultural studies, it analyzes popular culture from a critical theory perspective.
  • Sound culture – interdisciplinary field which considers "the material production and consumption of music, sound, noise and silence, and how these have changed throughout history and within different societies, but does this from a much broader perspective than standard disciplines."[2]
  • Visual culture

See also

References

  1. ^ Merriam-Webster Online
  2. ^ Pinch, T. and Bijsterveld, K, 2004, Sound Studies: new Technologies and Music, in "Social Studies of Science", 34\5, pp. 635-648

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