Behavioral Culture


This section is somewhat tentatively subdivided into cultural events, recreation and entertainment, occupations, and customs.	Sapience Home Site Map About Sapience Culture Cultural Events Recreation and Entertainment Occupations Customs

This section is somewhat tentatively subdivided into cultural events, recreation and entertainment, occupations, and customs.

Culture

Cultural Events

These include miscellanous events, disasters, gatherings, and holidays that affect large numbers of people.

Recreation and entertainment

This includes the performing arts of dance, music, and theater, and also games and sports.

Occupations

These include food-related occupations, building related, transportation related, communication related, industrial, and service related occupations.

Customs

No major historical events are associated with these, so information is at present rather limited.


History The history of behavioral culture can be followed in greater detail by condidering cultural events, recreation and entertainment, occupations, and customs. Fairly little is known of prehistory, but some information from antiquity can be recovered. There is more information in classical and medieval times, and there has been substantial development in modern times.	Links to other sites: Not yet available
Sociology Peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change can be used to examine cultural events, recreation and entertainment, occupations, and customs. Institutions Religion Religion will be significant, since much behavioral culture had a religious origin. Particular traditions including secular traditions can be examined. Abrahamic traditions of behavioral culture include those of Islamic origin. Christianity including Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, and Mormonism has various traditions of behavioral culture. Judaism can be connected. Asiatic religions including Indian, Oriental, and Persian religions also have an influence on behavioral culture. Pagan religions such as European pagan, Asiatic pagan, African pagan, and American Indan pagan will also be useful. Religious organization, practice, and belief can be connected. Government Particular governments will be significant. International government including traditional empires, colonial empires, and modern compacts has some connections. National government can be connected. Local government can be connected. Government activity including administration, succession, and state relations will provide examples. Government structure including political parties, judicial systems, legislative systems, executive systems, heads of state, and government forms will also be significant. Law including tribal law, Asiatic law, Western law, and international law can be connected. Economics Economics will provide examples of behavioral culture. Economic systems including firms, networks, system types, and system behavior will be useful. Industries including companies and agriculture, extraction and manufacturing, construction, transportation, communication, social and medical, and commercial and financial industries provide examples. Economic activities including production, consumption, and distribution and excnange will proved numerous examples. Education Particular schools including primary, secondary, and higher education can be connected. Educational organization including course material, students, faculty, and administration can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research will be useful. Families Particular families will provide examples. Kinship can be connected. Parenting can be connected. Marriage can be connected. Other Culture Conceptual culture Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic can be connected. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information and computing science, medical science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, analysis, geometry, algebra, arithmetic, and mathematical foundations can be connected. Literature including particular works, literary types and genres, literary forms, and oral tradition can be connected. Graphic arts including animation, photography, printmaking, painting, and drawing can be connected. Language including language of the world, writing, and linguistics can be connected. Material culture Miscellaneous artifacts including sculpture, musical instruments, medicines, and toys can be connected. Communication technology including electronic communication, graphic communication, and written communication can be connected. Transportation technology including space transportation, air transportation, water transportation, land transportation, and packaging can be connected. Clothing including adornment, garments, and textiles can be connected. Foodstuffs including prepared foods, preserved and processed foods, and raw foods can be connected. Building technology including outdoor structures, complete buildings, building components, furnishings, and materials can be connected. Industrial techology including advanced technology, utilities, machinery, chemical technology, fuels, and tools will be useful. Anthropology Particular groups Particular groups can be connected to behavioral culture. Human geography European geography including Balkan geography, Italian geography, Iberian geography, Eastern European geography, Central European geography, Northwestern European geography, Island European geography, and Scandinavian geography can be connected. Asian geography including Southwest Asian geography, South Asian geography, Southeast Asian geography, East Asian geography, Central Asian geography, and North Asian geography can be connected. African geography including North African geography, East African geography, West African geography, North Central African geography, South Central African geography, and South African geography can be connected. North American geography including Northern North American geography, Middle North American geography, and Southern North American geography can be connected. South American geography can be connected. Oceanic geography can be connected. Human ecology Human effects on the environment can be connected. Relations with other life can be connected. Environmental effects on people can be connected. Physical anthropology including human origins will also be important. Human dispersion can be connected. Racial variation can be connected. Demography including births, deaths, population structure and size, and population change is also useful. Social foundations such as social presentation, social interaction, social control, social group behavior, and group types are essential. Personal studies Biography is useful. Contributors to behavioral culture include: Mohammed Newton Jesus Buddha Confucius Paul Ts'ai Lun Gutenberg Columbus Einstein Pasteur Galileo Aristotle Euclid Moses Darwin Shih Huang Ti Augustus Copernicus Lavoisier Constantine There are also connections to psychology including behavioral elements, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology. The human body imposes various limitations on the study of behavioral culture, including those related to body systems, functions, disease, life cycle, and forms. Science Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, ecology, and biohistory may be developed as this site expands. Earth science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, physical geography, and geohistory has some connections. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and solar system astronomy is also not directly useful for the most part. Chemistry including substances, changes and reactions, and chemical systems is less directly useful. Physics including mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum physics, and the structure of matter is somewhat useful.

The history of behavioral culture can be followed in greater detail by condidering cultural events, recreation and entertainment, occupations, and customs. Fairly little is known of prehistory, but some information from antiquity can be recovered. There is more information in classical and medieval times, and there has been substantial development in modern times.

Links to other sites: Not yet available

Sociology

Peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change can be used to examine cultural events, recreation and entertainment, occupations, and customs.

Institutions

Religion

Religion will be significant, since much behavioral culture had a religious origin. Particular traditions including secular traditions can be examined. Abrahamic traditions of behavioral culture include those of Islamic origin. Christianity including Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, and Mormonism has various traditions of behavioral culture. Judaism can be connected. Asiatic religions including Indian, Oriental, and Persian religions also have an influence on behavioral culture. Pagan religions such as European pagan, Asiatic pagan, African pagan, and American Indan pagan will also be useful. Religious organization, practice, and belief can be connected.

Government

Particular governments will be significant. International government including traditional empires, colonial empires, and modern compacts has some connections. National government can be connected. Local government can be connected.

Government activity including administration, succession, and state relations will provide examples. Government structure including political parties, judicial systems, legislative systems, executive systems, heads of state, and government forms will also be significant. Law including tribal law, Asiatic law, Western law, and international law can be connected.

Economics

Economics will provide examples of behavioral culture. Economic systems including firms, networks, system types, and system behavior will be useful. Industries including companies and agriculture, extraction and manufacturing, construction, transportation, communication, social and medical, and commercial and financial industries provide examples. Economic activities including production, consumption, and distribution and excnange will proved numerous examples.

Education

Particular schools including primary, secondary, and higher education can be connected. Educational organization including course material, students, faculty, and administration can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research will be useful.

Families

Particular families will provide examples. Kinship can be connected. Parenting can be connected. Marriage can be connected.

Other Culture

Conceptual culture

Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic can be connected. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information and computing science, medical science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, analysis, geometry, algebra, arithmetic, and mathematical foundations can be connected. Literature including particular works, literary types and genres, literary forms, and oral tradition can be connected. Graphic arts including animation, photography, printmaking, painting, and drawing can be connected. Language including language of the world, writing, and linguistics can be connected.

Material culture

Miscellaneous artifacts including sculpture, musical instruments, medicines, and toys can be connected. Communication technology including electronic communication, graphic communication, and written communication can be connected. Transportation technology including space transportation, air transportation, water transportation, land transportation, and packaging can be connected. Clothing including adornment, garments, and textiles can be connected. Foodstuffs including prepared foods, preserved and processed foods, and raw foods can be connected. Building technology including outdoor structures, complete buildings, building components, furnishings, and materials can be connected. Industrial techology including advanced technology, utilities, machinery, chemical technology, fuels, and tools will be useful.

Anthropology

Particular groups

Particular groups can be connected to behavioral culture.

Human geography

European geography including Balkan geography, Italian geography, Iberian geography, Eastern European geography, Central European geography, Northwestern European geography, Island European geography, and Scandinavian geography can be connected. Asian geography including Southwest Asian geography, South Asian geography, Southeast Asian geography, East Asian geography, Central Asian geography, and North Asian geography can be connected. African geography including North African geography, East African geography, West African geography, North Central African geography, South Central African geography, and South African geography can be connected. North American geography including Northern North American geography, Middle North American geography, and Southern North American geography can be connected. South American geography can be connected. Oceanic geography can be connected.

Human ecology

Human effects on the environment can be connected. Relations with other life can be connected. Environmental effects on people can be connected.

Physical anthropology including human origins will also be important. Human dispersion can be connected. Racial variation can be connected.

Demography including births, deaths, population structure and size, and population change is also useful. Social foundations such as social presentation, social interaction, social control, social group behavior, and group types are essential.

Personal studies

Biography is useful. Contributors to behavioral culture include:

There are also connections to psychology including behavioral elements, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology. The human body imposes various limitations on the study of behavioral culture, including those related to body systems, functions, disease, life cycle, and forms.

Science

Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, ecology, and biohistory may be developed as this site expands. Earth science including geology, hydrospheric science, atmospheric science, physical geography, and geohistory has some connections. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and solar system astronomy is also not directly useful for the most part. Chemistry including substances, changes and reactions, and chemical systems is less directly useful. Physics including mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum physics, and the structure of matter is somewhat useful.

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