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Is there a reason why there's almost no images for western or east asian culture here? The only agrarian cultures depicted are from thousands of years agp. Wouldn't it be condusive to have pictures of chinese society, since they make up a large percentage of the world, or european or american culture, since they have both positively and negatively influenced so many others? All I see are pictures of obscure undeveloped societies--67.173.155.191 (talk) 21:33, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
I absolutely agree with Matt. It is also problematic that all non-white/non-Western people represented are identified "culturally" (the name of their culture) while white/Western people are identified by name as scholars of culture or as some kind of universal archetype (the "mother and child" picture). This is a definite case of bias in representation: non-white/non-Western are represented as exotic others while white/Western are represented as individuals or universals. Millberlin (talk) 15:45, 19 November 2013 (UTC) I would really like to change the caption for the mother and child picture, but to what - Western mother and child? Modern Western mother and child?Millberlin (talk) 15:54, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
A keen observation of how Muslim women dress and how American women dress shows a clear distinction about what each culture feels is the right mode of dressing. While Muslim women cover virtually their entire bodies, American women cover only the essential parts of their bodies. These two cultures frown upon each other and each feels that it is superior to the other.
The Function of Cultural Identity Clarity for Personal Identity Clarity and Personal Psychological Well-being,” argue that culture plays an important role in determining a person’s identity despite the fact that it is not straightforward in today’s multicultural environment. further argue that culture is important for one’s psychological wellbeing as it gives an individual some form of identity that he can be proud of. To support their argument, who says that culture plays a significant role in defining an individual and making him appear to be who he is. It is on this basis that anthropologists have taken a keen interest in culture to determine how it influences various aspects of individual lives.
While I agree with the sentiments expressed on the value of culture in making an individual have a sense of belonging and an element of personal existence, I feel that their idea that culture is likely to buffer one against the fear of death is quite out of context. I feel that culture has nothing to do with death as it is a separate entity that should be dealt with on its own.
Culture gives us directions on how we are supposed to carry ourselves. Each person has his culture which should be respected. No culture is superior to the other.(13) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malha10 (talk • contribs) 14:55, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
The following quote:
Raimon Panikkar identified 29 ways in which cultural change can be brought about, including growth, development, evolution, involution, renovation, reconception, reform, innovation, revivalism, revolution, mutation, progress, diffusion, osmosis, borrowing, eclecticism, syncretism, modernization, indigenization, and transformation.[45]
is proven by this source:
Panikkar, Raimon (1991). Pathil, Kuncheria, ed. Religious Pluralism: An Indian Christian Perspective. ISPCK. pp. 252–99. ISBN 9788172140052. OCLC 25410539.
Yet, the book of Kuncheria does not contain any text of Panikkar, Raimon.
Furthermore, the scientific value is very doubtable. Neither is the classification helpful for the article nor is it of a good epistemological quality (the different terms are not clearly distinctable but overlapping, ...)— Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.90.196.58 (talk) 21 August 2017
This is a request for assistance to write a parapraph to be insterted in the article on Culture 21. Herewith an asssist.
Since 2010, Culture is considered the Fourth Pillar of Sustainable Development by UNESCO[1]. More: Agenda 21 for Culture or in short Culture 21. --SvenAERTS (talk) 00:30, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
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Most of this article is not about Culture. Rather, it is about the scholarly study of culture. "Culture" is the fifth of the ten most vital articles listed as WP:VITAL, and I read it after reading the first four: Earth,Life, Human, and History of the World. Each of those articles has one or more companion articles that focus on the study instead of the subject (Geology,Biology,Homo Sapiens and others,History), and the "study" article are not vital: an educated layman does not need to know about all the random theories, but should know about the essentials that make up "culture". Or maybe culture should not be on the top ten list of vital articles.
After the article is moved, perhaps the actual description of culture can be split out into an article that can stay here. -Arch dude (talk) 05:32, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
The lead needs some simplification. According to the manual of style, the article's lead should give "a summary of its most important contents". Right now, it is rather overwhelming. Perhaps we could take a look at this [1] 2008 version of the article. Three concise, short paragraphs. Most of the extra information that has worked its way into the lead was in the body of the article. Any thoughts on a re-work? -- Henry TALK 19:18, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
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In the picture of the Beatles, please add a comma before "they" because it's a long and separate clause. 208.95.51.38 (talk) 19:44, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
Can it be pointed out that high status psychopaths invent most cultural practices to determine how much power they have over a group? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.45.35.201 (talk) 17:53, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
The Culture#Psychology section needs copy editing, but I can't edit the article to add it. Can someone please add ((copy edit section)) to that section? 216.160.67.169 (talk) 05:45, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
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Bookku (talk) 07:53, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
Is there anything meaningful that can be said on the topic? We've got very detailed articles on the extinction of species or of languages, but nothing that I can find on Wikipedia about the extinction of cultures or societies (apart from niche aspects of the topic, like Societal collapse or Cultural assimilation). Are there good reasons why there doesn't seem to be any relevant content in the encyclopedia? I'm asking because the article Extinct cultures was recently recreated, and I wish it hadn't been – it is just three short sentences long, and its sourcing consists entirely in two web pages: one from momtastic.com and the other from toptenz.net. – Uanfala (talk) 22:39, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
When I went to read this article I expected to see more about cultures in the world. It would be really nice to add a section of maybe links to other pages of different cultures or basic information about cultures around the world. AnonymousQueen18 (talk) 23:10, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
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Wolfram's A new kind of science (2002) is addressed to members of some institutions who are concerned with "outlook, attitudes, values, morals, goals, and customs shared by [members of]" those institutions (cultures for short).[1] Those institutions may be formally founded, with a history; the institutions may be schools, religions, armies, or political groupings, among other possibilities; they might even be informal or implicit cultures. The instititutions may be moribund or otherwise unready for change. A robust institution will attempt to manage change, or perhaps fight change. In a science, the assumptions for its explanatory narratives have a history; those assumptions and narratives were espoused by historical members of its community, as evidenced by its scientific literature. As the literature changes, a taxonomy of the scientific community's response follows, as documented in Everett Rogers' Diffusion of innovations (1962).
In 2017, Wolfram mused that his work documented computational experimentation;[2] one could experiment with mathematical expressions to yield unexpected results; the experiments yielded discoveries, as in other kinds of science.
Wolfram showed his readers that previous pictures of science, namely depictions of a monolithic unchanging edifice which exposes Truth, have to change, as computers advance. Consistent with Rogers' 1962 work, this viewpoint has not been uniformly accepted (see the response to mathematical constructivism, e.g. the Brouwer–Hilbert controversy, as well as Imre Lakatos' Proofs and Refutations). There are leaders and laggards in mathematical or scientific cultures as well (see Rogers).
--Ancheta Wis (talk | contribs) 21:43, 15 March 2021 (UTC), with edits on 08:18, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
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"In the United States, cultural studies focuses largely on the study of popular culture; that is, on the social meanings of mass-produced consumer and leisure goods. Richard Hoggart coined the term in 1964 when he founded the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies or CCCS.[41] It has since become strongly associated with Stuart Hall,[42] who succeeded Hoggart as Director.[43] Cultural studies in this sense, then, can be viewed as a limited concentration scoped on the intricacies of consumerism, which belongs to a wider culture sometimes referred to as 'Western civilization' or 'globalism'."
Hoggart and Hall both worked in the UK, not in the U.S., and the Centre was in Birmingham, England, not Birmingham, Alabama. Either "In the United States" was a typo for "In the United Kingdom" or someone started a paragraph about the U.S. and it got unfinished and/or misplaced. THat's a pity, as a paragraph on the distinctive development of the cultural studies in the U.S. is badly needed, and it shouldn't be treated as some kind of subset or outgrowth of the UK tradition. Unsigned -- addition by User:207.195.65.124 21:22, 25 June 2021
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Of all of the several images shown on this page for culture the only one that depicts some violent aspect of a culture is the Fulani, the only African culture shown. All of the other images shown for culture display something mundane, beautiful, creative, intelligent, interesting. I am certain that there is a non-violent, positive, aspect of any number of the African cultures that can be depicted here instead of a violent example. After all many of the African cultures are the first and the oldest on this earth, surely a positive image can be utilized. Please change this and choose an image from an African culture that is not violent. 47.151.43.181 (talk) 21:12, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
Culture and diversity Culture is the way of art and speaking a language for people background in the group and in the community.
It has been estimated from archaeological data that the human capacity for cumulative culture emerged somewhere between 500,000 and 170,000 years ago.[1] PzychoPat (talk) 16:19, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
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I propose that the stub article Cultural activities be merged into Culture. The existing article is a mess, reading a bit like a how-to (which is out of the scope of Wikipedia). The Description section of the Culture article lists cultural activities; the dedicated article presently adds nothing. Maybe there's scope for developing an article on the health or psychological benefits of cultural activities, but if we go in that direction the article title needs to reflect that and the sources need to substantially address that. MartinPoulter (talk) 13:05, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
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