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The social heritage and customs of an organized community,society or ethnic group.

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Procter & Gamble

Culture; American culture

Personal goods multinational founded in 1837 in Cincinnati, Ohio for the manufacture of candles and soap. Intensive advertising has made its products household staples, from Ivory ...

backlash

Culture; American culture

Phenomenon associated with the political retrenchment following civil rights, women’s and antiwar movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The backlash was first noted in the violent ...

philosophy

Culture; American culture

Philosophy in American academia went through two phases after the Second World War. The first was influenced and shaped by the ideas of the Vienna Circle and a small collection of ...

multiculturalism

Culture; American culture

Policy and philosophy promoting a vision of knowledge and experience that does not privilege any single group; usually directed against a Eurocentrism that defines history and ...

family values

Culture; American culture

Political rhetoric, a term especially but not (unfortunately) exclusively associated with conservatives. The term elevates models of the middleclass, two-parent monogamous ...

information

Culture; American culture

Popular accounts heralded the close of the twentieth century as the dawn of an “information age.” In some utopian visions, technical and economic infrastructures of communication ...

popular culture

Culture; American culture

Popular culture is difficult to define, partly because both terms—“popular” and “culture”—have meant different things at different points in history depending on the theoretical ...