Cultural backwardness (Russian: культурная отсталость, romanized: kul'turnaya otstalost') was a term used by Soviet politicians and ethnographers. There...

Look up backwardness in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Backwardness is a lack of progress by a person or group to some perceived cultural norm of advancement...

attributes can be identified in a social group. Cultural change, or repositioning, is the reconstruction of a cultural concept of a society. Cultures are internally...

A cultural icon is a person or an artifact that is identified by members of a culture as representative of that culture. The process of identification...

Cultural relativism is the view that concepts and moral values must be understood in their own cultural context and not judged according to the standards...

Cultural Bolshevism (German: Kulturbolschewismus), sometimes referred to specifically as art Bolshevism, music Bolshevism or sexual Bolshevism, was a term...

The cultural turn is a movement beginning in the early 1970s among scholars in the humanities and social sciences to make culture the focus of contemporary...

Cultural liberalism is a social philosophy which expresses the social dimension of liberalism and advocates the freedom of individuals to choose whether...

A cultural institution or cultural organization is an organization within a culture or subculture that works for the preservation or promotion of culture...

Cultural appropriation is the adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity in a manner perceived...

Cultural Christians are those who received Christian values or appreciate Christian culture. They may be non-practicing Christians, non-theists, apatheists...

Cultural literacy is a term coined by American educator and literary critic E. D. Hirsch, referring to the ability to understand and participate fluently...

The term cultural baggage refers to the tendency for one's culture to pervade thinking, speech, and behavior without one being aware of this pervasion...

Cultural intelligence or cultural quotient (CQ), refers to an individual's capability to function effectively in culturally diverse settings. The concept...

Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which...

Cultural tourism is a type of tourism in which the visitor's essential motivation is to learn, discover, experience and consume the cultural attractions...

A cultural center or cultural centre is an organization, building or complex that promotes culture and arts. Cultural centers can be neighborhood community...

Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages...

Cultural property, also known as cultural patrimony, comprises the physical items that are part of the cultural heritage of a group or society, as opposed...

In the fields of cultural studies and social anthropology, cultural cringe is an expression used to refer to an internalized inferiority complex where...

A cultural subsidy is a payment from the government to specific cultural industries to ensure that some public policy purpose in culture (e.g. multiculturalism...

Cultural Muslims, also known as nominal Muslims, non-practicing Muslims or non-observing Muslims, are people who identify as Muslim but are not religious...

Cultural conflict is a type of conflict that occurs when different cultural values and beliefs clash. Broad and narrow definitions exist for the concept...

Cultural bias is the interpretation and judgment of phenomena by the standards of one's own culture. It is sometimes considered a problem central to social...

In the field of sociology, cultural capital comprises the social assets of a person (education, intellect, style of speech, style of dress, social capital...

In cultural anthropology and cultural geography, cultural diffusion, as conceptualized by Leo Frobenius in his 1897/98 publication Der westafrikanische...

Cultural studies is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and...

Cultural learning is the way a group of people or animals within a society or culture tend to learn and pass on information. Learning styles can be greatly...

A cultural attaché is a diplomat with varying responsibilities, depending on the sending state of the attaché. Historically, such posts were filled by...

A cultural system is the interaction of different elements in culture. While a cultural system is very different from a social system, sometimes both...