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American culture
Art, music, literature, people, sports, technology, business, politics, religion and more in the United States. American culture is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Asian, and Latin American and Native American cultures.
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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 Soap (1879) moving ...
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 response of whites to ...
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 thinkers from ...
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 value by reference to a ...
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 heterosexual family as ...
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 and data exchange, ...
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 or disciplinary ...