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| | Culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | while a 2002 document from the United Nations agency UNESCO states that culture is the | | | "culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society" | | | In Science of Culture, published in 1949, he finally concluded that they are objects sui generis, "of their own kind". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition |
| | A thrilling expose' of Counter Culture Philosophy and oreintation, this is where the discussion all began. | | | Of course, as history shows us, the sixties ethos was flattened by the overwhelming onslaught of the establishment and the Ohio National Guard, and the political and social ethos of the counterculture melded into the domain of increasingly isolated private and personal philosphies of hippies being assimilated into the mainstream. | | | Rosazak nails quite accurately the tensions, problems and contradictions associated with the rise of the counterculture and the innate problems its continued existence eventually portended for the materialistic mainstream culture. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520201221?v=glance
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| | Orbital |
| | I mean, (rave culture) it's about young people going off into a field, middle of nowhere really, having a laugh and enjoying themselves. | | | We live in Brighton, on the South Coast (Of The United Kingdom.) We basically now living in the same town which makes a lot of things a lot easier. | | | Now, it's not quite as 'loved up' as the Sixties hippie culture. |
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http://www.mcapozzolijr.com/orbital.html
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| | Eisler/Loye Interview |
| | In the United States, you see the same kind of configuration in the rightist-fundamentalist alliance. | | | The prototypical situation for somebody today, particularly a male in the male dominant culture that has prevailed for five thousand years now, intensified by the so-called Age of Reason --is that you sop up a little bit of insight from the right brain half, but then you immediately suppress that original source of information. | | | I am not a biologist, so I can only tell you that my work is more in line with new interpretations by biologists and evolutionary scholars, that the Darwinian model at best deals with only part of the picture. |
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http://www.levity.com/mavericks/el.htm
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| | Culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Since subcultures reflect the position of a segment of society vis a vis other segments and the society as a whole, they often reveal processes of domination and resistance. | | | There resulted a belief in cultural relativism; the belief that one had to understand an individual's actions in terms of his or her culture; that one had to understand a specific cultural artifact (a ritual, for example) in terms of the larger symbolic system of which it forms a part. | | | Modern cultural theory also considers the possibility that (a) culture itself is a product of stabilization tendencies inherent in evolutionary pressures toward self-similarity and self-cognition of societies as wholes, or tribalisms. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture
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| | adorno on mass culture; cook [rev] - Title |
| | Emigrants from Nazi Germany, Adorno and his colleagues observed the use of mass culture in German fascism and were shocked to see in the United States the same sort of ideological culture which reproduced the existing social relations and served as propaganda for the established socio-economic and political order. | | | Yet occasionally, I have a nightmare that in some sense Adorno is right, that media culture by and large keeps individuals gratified and subservient to the logic and practices of market capitalism, that the culture industry has become thoroughly commodified and absorbs and deflects all oppositional culture to subservient ends. | | | T.W. Adorno was one of the first and most pungent radical critics of mass culture. |
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http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/MCkellner/COOKREV.html
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| | Lakritz Syllabus |
| | Lecture: Emerson may or may not be the daemon of United States literary culture, but his work provides a convenient and useful fulcrum from which to balance various competing and contradictory narratives of our history and our writing. | | | Whereas the folktales often find ways of escape for their protagonists, Twain's novel seems dedicated to spinning a farce in which a free man is freed, who moves deeper and deeper with his white companion "down the river" in a fiction set in the antebellum south but written for a postbellum United States. | | | Discussion: Among the topics for discussion this unit raises includes the role of the expatriate writer in defining American traditions in literature (both Ashbery and Bishop lived abroad for extended periods of time), the balance between innovation and tradition in style and subject matter, and the role of the poet in contemporary American culture. |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/teaching/lakritz.html
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| | The Devilfinder Search Engine - Monte Kuligowski: John Kerry: President of the Counter Culture Not ... - Finding Stuff Since 1979. |
| | Monte Kuligowski John Kerry: President of The Counter Culture not The United States MichNews.com-- Vietnam was The most sweepingly destructive era in US Monte Kuligowski: John Kerry: President of the Counter Culture Not... | | | John Kerry: President Of The Counter Culture Not The United States Monte Kuligowski (11/01/04) Vietnam was the most sweepingly destructive era in US history. | | | John Kerry: President of the Counter Culture Not the United States By Monte... |
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http://www.devilfinder.com/find.php?q=Monte+Kuligowski%3A+John+Kerry%3A+President+of+the+Counter+Culture+Not+...
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| | Literature of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The literature of the United States may be considered as belonging to English literature or as a distinct body of literature. | | | Among the themes and issues explored in African American literature are the role of African Americans within the larger American society, African American culture, racism, slavery, and equality. | | | For example, Wieland and other novels by Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) are energetic imitations of the Gothic novels then being written in England. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_literature
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| | Readings in Popular Culture |
| | MASS COMMUNICATION: TELEVISION, RADIO, FILM, PRESS: THE MEDIA AND THEIR PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | | | THE CULTURE OF Boston: South End Press, 1988. | | | "Scandal, heteronormative culture, and the disciplining of Feminism," CRITICAL STUDIES IN MASS COMMUNICATION. |
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http://www.ryerson.ca/mgroup/popcult.html
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| | Global and Domestic Nomads or Third Culture Kids |
| | As United States (U.S.) and international universities continue to reflect this growing trend, it becomes vital that student affairs professionals understand the needs of the student population as it becomes increasingly culturally diverse (Storti, 1999). | | | Linked closely to Global Nomads is the concept of "Third Culture Kids" (TCKs). | | | This cultural difference allows the TCK to take parts of different host cultures, and combine them into his or her own unique value system and lifestyle (Pollock and Van Reken, 1987). |
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http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/SAHE/JOURNAL2/2003/Stultz.htm
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| | A Blueprint for The Third Millennium Culture of Peace |
| | One year ago, my UN 55th Anniversary Culture of Peace Message to the United Nations was hand-delivered on its arrival cosigned by all of the Global Peace Walk 2000 PeaceWalkers who had crossed the United States walking from San Francisco last year, January 15th to October 24th, to United Nations headquarters in New York City. | | | This device and that of the Rainbow Peace Braids are the first two of several recommended here to expand the UN's promotion of "Creating a Culture of Peace for the 21st Century" into the actual implementation of a Third Millennium Culture of Peace with a Vision of Paradise on Earth. | | | Culture of the Sacred Pipe of Peace, annual World Peace Day |
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http://www.uic.tula.ru/ccp/1/iso/document/other/gpeacwlk.htm
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| | Reading Online - New Literacies: The Media Literacy Department from JAAL |
| | Much of the excitement about popular culture in the United States is tempered by the recent focus, at the state and national levels, on standardized tests as the sole evaluators of academic merit and skill. | | | I want to illustrate how the critical teaching of popular culture can produce powerful academic and social results with urban youth. | | | That is, any pedagogy of popular culture has to be a critical pedagogy where students and teachers learn from and with one another while engaging in authentic dialogue that is centered on the experiences of urban youth as participants in and creators of popular culture (Freire, 1970; Giroux, 1997; hooks, 1994; McLaren, 1989). |
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http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/jaal/9-02_column
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| | ABRAMS, DOUGLAS CARL. SELLING THE OLD-TIME RELIGION: AMERICAN FUNDAMENTALISTS AND MASS CULTURE, 1920-1940 for the Journal of Southern Religion |
| | This book is a solid contribution to the growing body of scholarship on fundamentalism and would be a good choice for upper-level religion courses or graduate-level courses on religion in the United States. | | | Fundamentalists in this twenty-year period were cultural brokers who negotiated the boundaries of secular culture to their benefit, and who attempted to reject modernism at the same time as they embraced modern techniques in mass culture. | | | His thesis, that fundamentalists both incorporated and rejected elements of modern culture in the inter-war years, is not a new assertion, but it does challenge the assumption that fundamentalists and evangelicals were and continue to be, a homogeneous group. |
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http://jsr.as.wvu.edu/2001/reviews/Abrams.htm
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| | Theology Today - Vol 51, No. 4 - January 1995 - CRITICS CORNER - When Worldviews Collide: Religion and the Culture of Disbelief |
| | They will exercise their power in a way that can hardly be called benevolent if the United States persists in the culture of disbelief. | | | The dominant belief that legitimates "success" in American culture and explains the distribution of goods and privileges is that, all things being relatively equal, one gets what one merits, based upon intelligence, industry, and a host of other traits. | | | When Worldviews Collide: Religion and the Culture of Disbelief |
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http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/jan1995/v51-4-criticscorner1.htm
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| | Some Aspects of Lithuanian Folklore in Lithuania and the United States - Liubiniene, Kelly |
| | Folklore has become the fashion, but as all fashions change, so has folklore to find its place among other things in the whole Lithuanian culture and must not be insistently thrusted into every commemoration of the victims or every sad or joyful occasion. | | | The questionnaires were administered to members of four folk groups in Lithuania and two folk groups in the United States: Blezdinga was founded in 1992, Volungė in 1981, Uosinta in 1979, Kupolė in 1983, and Aidas and Lietutis /Ūkana23 in 1981. | | | The future of folklore is seen by many of the respondents not as a popular pursuit, but for professional performers. |
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http://www.lituanus.org/1997/97_2_06.htm
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| | Voces Americanas / American Voices |
| | While the literature of the latter groups is generally one of resistance to the majority culture, Cuban-American literature tends to focus on a nostalgia for Cuba. | | | The Plan Espiritual de Aztlán espoused the concept of brotherhood or carnalismo, a spirit which characterized the literature of the movimiento with its heavy emphasis on male heroes as portrayed in the poem I Am Joaquín. | | | Thematically, the literature of this group is in flux, for some authors write about assimilation, while others stories are steeped in memories of Cuba and center on the effect of the revolution on several generations of exiles. |
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http://www.humanities-interactive.org/vocesamericanas/thirtyyears.htm
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| | Welcome - BGSU Browne Popular Culture Library |
| | The Browne Popular Culture Library, founded in 1969 and dedicated to the acquisition and preservation of research materials on American popular culture (post 1876), is the most comprehensive repository of its kind in the United States. | | | The Mystery Writers of America, Inc. has recognized the Browne Library's commitment to the mystery genre with a Raven Award that was presented on 29 April 2004. | | | For more information see the Mystery-Detective Fiction collection. |
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http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/pcl.html
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| | Multicultural Literature Resources |
| | An alphabetically arranged compendium of relatively substantive, signed articles on nearly 150 ethnic and cultural populations residing in the United States. | | | Though not a reference book in the standard dictionary or encyclopedic form, this collection of essays by 27 scholars is "designed to serve as a reference work documenting the history of Italian American culture and as a critical project dedicated to the analysis of Italian American identity." (Back cover). | | | The term "Chicano literature" is defined as the literary output of Mexican-Americans since 1848. |
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http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/multicultural.html
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| | LEADER Magazine: Third-Culture Kids |
| | She looks forward to getting reacquainted with American culture and Taco Bell—her favorite fast food—now that she is back in the United States. | | | The phenomenon of the TCK has increasingly touched Girl Scout troop leaders in the United States and abroad. | | | Cultural Identity: TCKs experience the influence of two (or more) cultures throughout their lives. |
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http://www.girlscouts.org/for_adults/leader_magazine/2004_winter/third_culture_kids.asp
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| | Theory & Practice II2153113 |
| | Today's journalistic fairness in the United States is a blend of high hopes, historic traditions, contemporary political culture and the expediencies journalists face in keeping audiences, owners and sources at bay. | | | Last week the Postal Service issued the Elvis stamp; this week, Bill Clinton will be augurated as the 42nd president of the United States. | | | Studies of "a whole way of life" of particular cultures, including the impact of modern mass media |
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http://site.www.umb.edu/forum/1/AMST2000/member/Forums/56197252.html
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| | Bad Subjects: Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture |
| | Race and Culture explores how race "still matters" to all of us in the United States and abroad. | | | These contributions and their adaptations in the United States are showcased in nearly 500 essay entries on noted people, festivities, items, terms, movements, sports, food, events, places, visual and performing arts, film, institutions, fashion, literature, organizations, the media, and much more. | | | U.S. culture has been profoundly impacted by contributions from Mexico and the rest of Central America, South America, and the Spanish Caribbean. |
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http://www.bad.eserver.org/books/2004/encyclopedia2004.html
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| | American Popular Culture |
| | The Website provides resources for the critical analysis of popular culture in the United States, including the impact of that culture beyond national borders. | | | of books on popular culture, and use that old-fashioned, non-virtual space known as the library. | | | This site also includes sections that introduce and give resources for four main types or elements of popular culture analysis: production analysis, textual analysis, audience analysis, and historical analysis (of the first three dimensions as they change over time). |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/pop/tvrguide.html
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| | California Poet Laureate Official California Poet Laureate Quincy T. Troupe Ina Donna Coolbrith |
| | Today, this title is offered by organizations to honor the eminent and representative poets who bring so much to our culture. | | | The California Poet Laureate may, and is encouraged to, coordinate his or her project with any similar project being undertaken by the current United States' Poet Laureate. | | | The Academy of American Poets: "The Day Duke Raised: May 24th, 1974," a poem for Duke Ellington. |
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http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/poetlaureate/ca_poetlaureate.htm
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| | Reflection About Writing |
| | After interviewing Elisa, her unique perspective about the Dominican Republic and United States culture, her thoughts about her identity, and her third culture background intrigued me. Therefore, I broadened my topic to investigate third culture students on the Goshen College campus. | | | The students' observations about the United States will force the readers to consider some aspects about their own lives. | | | Also, the Third Culture Club doesn't publicize to the broader community, so most people will need a concise description of the club. |
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http://www.goshen.edu/~tamarajg/response.html
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| | American Popular Culture |
| | The Website provides resources for the critical analysis of popular culture in the United States, including the impact of that culture beyond national borders. | | | of books on popular culture, and use that old-fashioned, non-virtual space known as the library. | | | This site also includes sections that introduce and give resources for four main types or elements of popular culture analysis: production analysis, textual analysis, audience analysis, and historical analysis (of the first three dimensions as they change over time). |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/pop/tvrguide.html
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| | The canon revisited: An ethnographic study on the teaching of American literature to United States-Mexican students at Macario Garcia high school. |
| | The canon revisited: An ethnographic study on the teaching of American literature to United States-Mexican students at Macario Garcia high school. | | | Although all of the teacher participants who were interviewed expressed that they did not have any pre-service training in diverse works of American literature, they structured their curriculum and instruction toward the inclusion of their students everyday lived experiences---both their personal growth and ethnic culture. | | | A picture emerges from the analyses of the TIQ and focus group of students that learning is taking place within a curricular culture that fosters (re)learning and (re)thinking through diverse literary canon experiences. |
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http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/dissertations/AAI3008139
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| | Amazon.com: Buying the Wind : Regional Folklore in the United States: Books: Richard M. Dorson |
| | But the book is a valuable archive of fascinating folktales, beliefs, and descriptions of regionally-based forms of traditional culture in the United States. | | | United States, Mardi Gras, New York, Journal of American Folklore, North Carolina, Foolish John, New Mexico, Grace Partridge Smith, Quare Jack, Pennsylvania Dutch, Pennsylvania German, Hoosier Folklore, Ozark Superstitions, Barney Beal, Brown Collection, Mother Hicks, Brigham Young, Don Peanut, Three Nephites, Saint Peter, Rio Grande, Don Pedro, Jesus Christ, New England, New Jersey | | | Buy this book with The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction by Jan Harold Brunvand today! |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226158624?v=glance
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| | Greenwood Publishing Group I1 |
| | An extensive chronology traces the development of Hispanic literature and culture in the United States from 1492 to 2002, providing the context within which such Hispanic writers such as Sandra Cisneros, Rodolfo Anaya, and Oscar Hijuelos have worked. | | | Kanellos is the director of a major national research program, Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage of the United States, whose objective is to identify, preserve, study, and make accessible tens of thousands of literary documents of those regions that have become the United States from the colonial period to 1960. | | | Hispanic literature in the United States is covered from the Spanish colonial period to the present. |
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http://info.greenwood.com/books/1573565/157356558x.html
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