Culture

:For other uses of Culture or Cultures, see Culture (disambiguation).

Cultural change

Cultures, by predisposition, both embrace and resist dependence of culture traits. For example, men and women have complementary roles in many cultures. One sex might desire changes that affect the other, as happened in the second half of the 20th century in western cultures.

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Cultural change can come about due to the environment, to inventions (and other internal influences), and to contact with other cultures. For example, the end of the last ice age helped lead to the invention of agriculture, which in its turn brought about many cultural innovations.

Related Topics:
Ice age - Agriculture

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In diffusion, the form of something moves from one culture to another, but not its meaning. For example, hamburgers, mundane in the United States, seemed exotic when introduced into China. "Stimulus diffusion" refers to an element of one culture leading to an invention in another. Diffusions of innovations theory presents a research-based model for why and when individuals and cultures adopt new ideas, practices, and products.

Related Topics:
Diffusion - Hamburger - Diffusions of innovations

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"Acculturation" has different meanings, but in this context refers to replacement of the traits of one culture with those of another, such as happened to certain Native American tribes and to many indigenous peoples across the globe during the process of colonization .

Related Topics:
Native American - Colonization

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Related processes on an individual level include assimilation (adoption of a different culture by an individual) and transculturation.

Related Topics:
Assimilation - Transculturation

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