Much more than shelter, housing symbolizes social status, a sense of `` belonging '', acceptance within a given group or neighborhood, identification with particular cultural values and social institutions, feelings of pride and worth, aspirations and hopes basic to human well-being.

Having effected a separation from England and its cultural icons, America was left without history -- or heroes on which to base a shared sense of their social selves.

As a mixture of cultures from both countries, being Chicano represents the struggle of being accepted into the Anglo-dominated society of the United States, while maintaining the cultural sense developed as a Latino-cultured, US-born Mexican child.

Often, methods of promoting development and social justice to are critiqued as being imperialistic, in a cultural sense.

To summarize, every established national group used cultural productions to assert and strengthen a sense of national unity and destiny ; less politically consolidated groups, especially those pursuing the goal of nationhood, used them in the same ways, though often with a note of determination that makes them easier to see from our contemporary point of reference.

In this sense, postcolonial literature may be considered a branch of postmodern literature concerned with the political and cultural independence of peoples formerly subjugated in colonial empires.

And in this sense they go beyond etiological myths which mean to explain specific features in religious rites, natural phenomena or cultural life.

Antonio Gramsci's concepts on cultural hegemony, in particular, suggest that the culture and values of the economic elite – the bourgeoisie – become indoctrinated as ‘ common sense ’ to the working-class, allowing for the maintenance of the status quo through misplaced belief.

As a result of a long history of a strong landowning peasantry and the virtual absence of serfdom in most parts of Eritrea, the bulk of Eritreans had developed a distinct sense of cultural identity and superiority vis-à-vis Ethiopians.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

Eventually, he even arranged to have the domain's gateway site named kremvax. demos. su, thus turning fiction into truth and, according to one account, " demonstrating that the hackerish sense of humor transcends cultural barriers ".

These oppositions are inherent to modernism: it is in its broadest cultural sense the assessment of the past as different to the modern age, the recognition that the world was becoming more complex, and that the old " final authorities " ( God, government, science, and reason ) were subject to intense critical scrutiny.

In his book The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ), the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins used the term meme to describe a unit of human cultural transmission analogous to the gene, arguing that replication also happens in culture, albeit in a different sense.

) In 1999, Susan Blackmore, a psychologist at the University of the West of England, published The Meme Machine, which more fully worked out the ideas of Dennett, Lynch, and Brodie and attempted to compare and contrast them with various approaches from the cultural evolutionary mainstream, as well as providing novel, and controversial, memetic-based theories for the evolution of language and the human sense of individual selfhood.

Internalists countered with various arguments: that brain states will eventually be directly observable with advanced technology, that most cultural anthropologists agree that culture is about beliefs and not artifacts, or that artifacts cannot be replicators in the same sense as mental entities ( or DNA ) are replicators.

The word " Maecenas ", in the sense of cultural benefactor, was the penultimate word used in the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee, on May 28, 2009.

The sense of common identity was at first a cultural movement, such as in the Völkisch movement in German-speaking states, which rapidly acquired a political significance.

When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.

In this sense pluralism is the expression of the diversity of cultural backgrounds and assumptions that people use to approach the Divine.

In 1968 Ronald Melzack and Kenneth Casey described pain in terms of its three dimensions: " sensory-discriminative " ( sense of the intensity, location, quality and duration of the pain ), " affective-motivational " ( unpleasantness and urge to escape the unpleasantness ), and " cognitive-evaluative " ( cognitions such as appraisal, cultural values, distraction and hypnotic suggestion ).

The Prime Minister specified that the motion used the " cultural " and " sociological " as opposed to the " legal " sense of the word " nation ".

The Star Trek television series franchise is often described as space opera that encourages this sense of wonder, in that most of the scripts are generally about peaceful space exploration and examinations of cultural differences rather than about conflict between civilizations.

Conversely, the rejection of syncretism, usually in the name of " piety " and " orthodoxy ", may help to generate, bolster or authenticate a sense of uncompromised cultural unity in a well-defined minority or majority.

Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

Interventive Conservation refers to any act by a conservator that involves a direct interaction between the conservator and the cultural material.

: Science of the mind, or cultural or spiritual science ), a term generally used in German to refer to the humanities and social sciences ; in fact, the term " science " is used more broadly in Europe as a general term that refers to any exact knowledge.

But, particularly in the United States and Canada, the racial or ethnic classification also refers to people with all possible kinds of skin pigmentation from the darkest through to the very lightest skin colors, including albinos, if they are believed by others to have African ancestry, or to exhibit cultural traits associated with being " African-American ".

A more secular meaning can denote that the term Christendom refers to Christians considered as a group, the " Political Christian World ", as an informal cultural hegemony that Christianity has traditionally enjoyed in the West.

The term specifically refers to people whose cultural background is primarily associated with French language, regardless of ethnic and geographical differences.

* In Australia, the term refers to relatively small Aboriginal settlements ( referred to also as ' Outstations ') where people with close kinship ties share lands significant to them for cultural reasons.

* Racial integration, refers to social and cultural behavior

In the Western world, the term New Left refers to cultural politics.

A historical explanation of the myth refers to the time when Crete was the main political and cultural potency in the Aegean Sea.

The dominant usage of the word Renaissance refers to the cultural changes that occurred in Italy that culminated in the High Renaissance around 1500.

The 1960s term also refers to an era more often called The Sixties, denoting the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends across the globe.

The title of the 1955 musical Damn Yankees refers specifically to the New York Yankees baseball team but also echoes the older cultural term.

The final stage is the generalized other, which refers to widespread cultural norms and values we use as a reference for evaluating others.

* In its descriptive sense, " morality " refers to personal or cultural values, codes of conduct or social mores.

Indigenous peoples primarily refers to ethnic groups that have historical ties to groups that existed in a territory prior to colonization or formation of a nation state, and which normally preserve a degree of cultural and political separation from the mainstream culture and political system of the nation state within the border of which the indigenous group is located.

Rather OMP refers to a cultural practice in which a few individuals within a larger corporation ( or company ) control and decide what is done with the entire profit created by that corporation.

Virtuality refers to a continuum of how “ virtual ” a team is There are three predominant factors that contribute to virtuality, namely: ( a ) the richness of communication media ; ( b ) distance between team members, both in time zones and geographical dispersion ; and ( c ) organisational and cultural diversity.

As a descriptive term, it usually refers to the simple fact of cultural diversity: it is generally applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, sometime at the organizational level, e. g. schools, businesses, neighbourhoods, cities, or nations.

As a normative term, it refers to ideologies or policies that promote this diversity or its institutionalisation ; in this sense, multiculturalism is a society “ at ease with the rich tapestry of human life and the desire amongst people to express their own identity in the manner they see fit .” Such ideologies or policies vary widely, including country to country, ranging from the advocacy of equal respect to the various cultures in a society, to a policy of promoting the maintenance of cultural diversity, to policies in which people of various ethnic and religious groups are addressed by the authorities as defined by the group they belong to.

Female genital mutilation ( FGM ), also known as female genital cutting ( FGC ), female circumcision, or female genital mutilation / cutting ( FGM / C ), refers to " all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other surgery of the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious or other non-therapeutic reasons.

The foreign relations of Israel refers to diplomatic, commercial and cultural ties between the State of Israel and other countries around the world.

The term Classroom 2. 0 refers to a method of using a type of Multi-User Virtual Learning Environment set-up to connect schools across geographical frontiers ( known as ' eTwinning ') to enhance educational outcomes and cultural integration.

The film's title refers to " Rosie the Riveter ", the cultural icon that represented women who manned the manufacturing plants which produced munitions and material during World War II.