Cultural pessimism arises with the conviction that the culture of a nation, a civilization, or humanity itself is in a process of irreversible decline...

Pessimism is a mental attitude in which an undesirable outcome is anticipated from a given situation. Pessimists tend to focus on the negatives of life...

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...

James Seaton Fran Lebowitz Slavoj Žižek Criticism of multiculturalism Cultural pessimism Counterculture Semiotics of culture Social criticism Remembering Lionel...

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

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...

individuals may identify as culturally Christian because of family background, personal experiences, or the social and cultural environment in which they...

A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work. This embodies all art forms, the sciences, and philosophies...

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

Cultural globalization refers to the transmission of ideas, meanings and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations...

Defensive pessimism is a cognitive strategy in which an individual sets a low expectation for their performance, regardless of how well they have done...

Cultural relativism is the position that there is no universal standard to measure cultures by, and that all cultural values and beliefs must be understood...

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

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 universal (also called an anthropological universal or human universal) is an element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all...

In anthropology and geography, a cultural area, cultural region, cultural sphere, or culture area refers to a geography with one relatively homogeneous...

Cultural nationalism is a term used by scholars of nationalism to describe efforts among intellectuals to promote the formation of national communities...

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...

Cultural history records and interprets past events involving human beings through the social, cultural, and political milieu of or relating to the arts...

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

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

"tyranny of ugliness". He attributed this to an alleged plot to instill cultural pessimism in America, carried out in three stages by Georg Lukács, the Frankfurt...

Cultural identity is a part of a person's identity, or their self-conception and self-perception, and is related to nationality, ethnicity, religion, social...

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 diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures, as opposed to monoculture. It has a variety of meanings in different contexts, sometimes...

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

Cultural studies is a politically engaged postdisciplinary academic field that explores the dynamics of especially contemporary culture (including the...

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...

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