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Culture, from the Latin "to cultivate", references both the combined experience of a population and the works created by them. Thus culture is ultimately a combination of societal mores and taboos, historical memory, attitudes, and a people's contributions to literature, stagecraft, painting, sculpture, and other forms of art.
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Are there any "general" historical theories about all the "cultural revolutions" in the mid-...
Is this a widely accepted theory about the causes of these events?
No. The critituqes of Strauss and Howe relate to the failure of their hypothesis to explain its own data adequately, and the li …
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Microsocial behaviour 500 years ago in western societies
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Most cultural/social history of peasantries
Basically: very different.
Class was expressed through legalised social status issues including dress, habit, language, gesture, stan …
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Has any generation generally agreed that the next generation was better?
New Soviet Man was a phenomena in Soviet culture and art in the post-1920 period. It finds its most heightened non-ironic form prior to the economic crisis of the mid 1950s.
Versions of the New Sovi …
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What Happened to Hacker Culture After 1970?
Hacker culture didn't exist in the 1970s: a variety of hacker cultures existed: see the Jargon file's regional specific entries. Since the 1970s hacker culture unified, generated its imaginary other ( …
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Why was PTSD not written about as much before the 20th century?
The term PTSD was invented in the 1980s by the medical discipline of psychiatry.
The condition which the term PTSD refers to was well known to people from antiquity under various names with differe …
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How much did the western world know about the Soviet Union pre-WWII?
Politically oriented proletarians in Western Europe were well aware of the nature of the Soviet Union and chose to support or oppose it based on their organised theories of revolution. For example, wo …
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What were the cultures of peasants in China during the Hundred Schools period (600-221BCE)?
During the Hundred Schools period (600-221 BCE) Chinese cultures changed significantly as ideas were contested amongst the ruling elite.
What do we know of peasant cultures in China during this perio …
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What are the historical reasons for religious and political negative attitudes towards homos...
Expanding Tom Au's answer:
"Homosexuality" as we know it is a product of 19th century medical science which ties together a sequence of sexual, emotional, family and social conducts and gives them a …
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Are there documented shifts in how history, time, and accuracy were regarded in society?
While this question is way too broad, we have a really good example in terms of the international working class movement. EP Thompson's "Time, work-discipline and industrial capitalism" Past and Pres …
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How did the elite maintain the status quo throughout the British Colonies of North America?
I think you need to start reading social histories about "mob" studies. Oliver Bringing the Crowd back in, 1985 is an example of crowd studies. Understanding the capacities of the paid and unpaid ( …
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