Outline of culture

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The following Wikipedia Outline is provided as an overview and content index to culture:

[edit] Nature of culture

Main article: Culture

Civilization –
Community –
Ethnic group –
People –
Group lifestyle –
Society –

[edit] Elements of culture

The Arts –
- Fine arts
  - Gastronomy
    - Cooking –
    - Food and drink
      - Cuisine –
  - Literature –
    - Fiction –
    - Poetry –
    - Critical theory –
- 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 –
  - Dance –
  - Film –
  - Music –
    - Opera –
  - Theatre –
Celebration
- Festivals –
Entertainment –
- Fiction –
- Games –
- Sports –
  - Basketball –
  - Cricket –
  - Martial arts –
  - Motorcycling –
  - Tennis –
Language –
Politics –
Religion –
Traditions –

[edit] Types of cultures

Organizational culture –

[edit] 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

[edit] Cultural cross-sections

Children's culture – cultural phenomena pertaining to children
- Children's street culture – cumulative culture created by young children
Coffee culture – social atmosphere or series of associated social behaviors that depends heavily upon coffee – , particularly as a social lubricant –
Culture of capitalism – the lifestyle of the people living within a capitalist society, and the effects of a global or national capitalist economy on a population
DIY culture – refers to a wide range of elements in non-mainstream society, such as grassroots political and social activism, independent music, art, and film
Dominant culture – the established language, religion, behavior, values, rituals, and social customs of a society
Drinking culture – the customs and practices of people who drink alcoholic beverages
Folk culture – traditional culture; traditional cultural traits of a community
Low culture –
High culture –
Official culture –
Political culture –
- Civic political culture –
Popular culture – totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that permeate the everyday lives of a given society, especially those heavily influenced by mass media.
Print culture –
Safety culture – the way in which safety is managed in the workplace, which often reflects "the attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values that employees share in relation to safety."
Tea culture –
Trash culture –
Urban culture –
Vernacular culture –

[edit] Subcultures

Main article: Subculture

Lifestyle enclave –

[edit] Types of subcultures

Alternative culture – exists outside or on the fringes of mainstream or popular culture, usually under the domain of one or more subcultures.
Counterculture –
Oppositional culture –
Security culture –
Underground culture (disambiguation) –

[edit] Specific subcultures

Association football culture –
Cycling subculture –
Deaf culture – social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values and shared institutions of communities that are affected by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication. When used as a cultural label, the word "deaf" is often written with a capital D, and referred to as "big D Deaf" in speech and sign.
Ethical Culture –
Gun Culture –
LGBT culture –
Modern juggling culture –
Surf culture –
Video game culture –

[edit] Cultures of the world

[edit] Area studies

Main article: Area studies

Classical studies –
Sinology –

[edit] Cultures by ethnicity or ethnic sphere

Western culture –
- Anglo America –
- Latin American culture –
- Anglosphere –
- African American culture –
Indosphere –
Sinosphere –
Islamic culture –
Arab culture –
Tibetan culture –

[edit] Cultures of continents and major geopolitical regions

(non-continents are italicized)

[edit] Cultures by political divisions of the World

(arranged by continent or major geopolitical region)

[edit] Cultures of Africa

Main article: Culture of Africa

West Africa

North Africa

Central Africa

East Africa

Southern 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

[edit] Culture of Antarctica

No political divisions, just some scattered outposts

[edit] Cultures of Asia

Main article: Culture of Asia

Central Asia

East Asia
- Culture of China
  - Culture of Tibet
  - Special Administrative regions of China
    - Culture of Hong Kong
    - Culture of Macau
- Culture of Japan
- Culture of North Korea
- Culture of South Korea
- Culture of Mongolia
- Culture of Taiwan

North Asia
- Culture of Russia
Southeast Asia

South Asia

West Asia

[edit] Cultures of the Caucasus

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

North Caucasus
- Parts of Russia

South Caucasus

[edit] Cultures of the South Atlantic

[edit] History of culture

Main articles: Cultural history and Cultural-history archaeology

[edit] Cultural histories

[edit] By period

Culture during the Cold War

[edit] By region

[edit] By subject

[edit] Historical cultures

Human sacrifice in Aztec culture

[edit] Politics of culture

The arts and politics – as they respond to contemporaneous events and politics, the arts take on political as well as social dimensions, becoming themselves a focus of controversy and even a force of political as well as social change.
Culture change –
Culture of fear –
Culture of life –
Culture minister –
Official culture –
Political culture –

[edit] Sociology of culture

[edit] 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 –

[edit] See also

Culture portal

[edit] References

^ Merriam-Webster Online
^ 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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What is Culture? - Washington State University
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Define Culture - List of definitions of culture from people around the world.
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[0] Merriam-Webster Online

[1] 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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Outline of culture

Contents

[edit] Nature of culture

[edit] Elements of culture

[edit] Types of cultures

[edit] Cultures by aspect

[edit] Cultural cross-sections

[edit] Subcultures

[edit] Types of subcultures

[edit] Specific subcultures

[edit] Cultures of the world

[edit] Area studies

[edit] Cultures by ethnicity or ethnic sphere

[edit] Cultures of continents and major geopolitical regions

[edit] Cultures by political divisions of the World

[edit] Cultures of Africa

[edit] Culture of Antarctica

[edit] Cultures of Asia

[edit] Cultures of the Caucasus

[edit] Cultures of Europe

[edit] Cultures of North America

[edit] Cultures of Oceania

[edit] Cultures of South America

[edit] Cultures of the South Atlantic

[edit] History of culture

[edit] Cultural histories

[edit] By period

[edit] By region

[edit] By subject

[edit] Historical cultures

[edit] Politics of culture

[edit] Sociology of culture

[edit] Academic fields

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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