Behavioral culture

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

   

Customs

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

Occupations

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

Recreation and entertainment

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

Cultural Events

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


Science

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

Links to other sites: Not yet available

Personal studies

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

Anthropology

Social foundations such as social presentation, social interaction, social control, social group behavior, and group types are essential. Demography including births, deaths, population structure and size, and population change is also useful. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion will also be important. Human ecology including the effects of people on the environment, relations with other life, and the effects of the environment on people can be connected. Human geography including geography of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Oceania is also influential. particular groups are also significant.

Other Culture

Connections with material culture including foodstuffs, clothing, buildings, transporation and communication devices, tools, and other artifacts will be useful.

Connections with conceptual culture, including language, graphics, literature, mathematics, applied science, and roots in philosophy including metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, and philosophical schools and doctrines will also develop.

Institutions

Families including marriange, parenting, kinship, and particular families will provide examples of behavioral culture. Education including research, teaching, and cultural institutions will be useful. Educational organization including course material, students, faculty, and administration can be connected. Particular schools including primary, secondary, and higher education can be connected.

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

Government will be significant. Law including tribal law, Asiatic law, Western law, and international law can be connected. Government structure including political parties, judicial systems, legislative systems, executive systems, heads of state, and government forms will also be significant. Government activity including administration, succession, and state relations will provide examples.Particular governments including local and national government will be significant. International government including traditional empires, colonial empires, and modern compacts has some connections.

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

Sociology

Social structure and change is important in the study of behavioral culture. Social structure including anthropological structure, cultural structure, institutional structure, and class organization will be useful. Social types including hunting and gathering peoples, horticultural peoples, agrarian peoples, and industrial peoples all provide examples. Social change including social change factors is important. Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be considered. Particular changes including the agricultural revolution, agrarian revolution, and industrial revolution in its early, middle, and late stages will be important.

Communities such as New York City may give examples of behavioral culture.

The variety of peoples in the world also gives information. Particular nations such as Iran, Thailand, France, Congo, Italy, United Kingdom, and South Korea can be considered.

The behavioral culture of Western Civilization including Germanic, Northeast European, and Balkan peoples can be examined. Particular nations including Germany give examples. Particular cities including Mexico City have examples. Anglic peoples including the United States can be considered. Latin peoples including Mexico are important. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can also be connected. Northeast European peoples such as those of Russia can be considered.

Asiatic peoples have similarities as well as importand differences. Particular nations include Turkey. Cities include Tokyo and Seoul. Middle Eastern peoples including those of Egypt can be considered. South Asian peoples including India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh can be connected. Oriental peoples such as those of China and Japan have particular forms. Southeast Asian peoples including Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnamcan be connected.

African peoples including those of Ethiopia are also important. Western African peoples including those of Nigeria can be considered.

American Indian peoples including those found in Mexico have similarities as well as important differences. South American Indians including those of Brazil can be considered. North American Indians including those of the United States can be considered.

History

The history of behavioral culture can be followed in greater detail by condidering customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events.

The origins of behavioral culture are lost in prehistory, and customs, occupations, recreation, and cultural events is difficult to reconstruct. Some information from early prehistory, middle prehistory, and late prehistory can be recovered.

It can be traced in antiquity, though this is still a little obscure at present. Custors, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events can be followed a little more easily. Elements of behavioral culture can be followed through the 5th millennium BC, and 4th millennium BC. This task becomes much easier with the development of literate bronze age cultures in the 3rd millennium BC, 2nd millennium BC, and early first millennium BC.

There were developments in classical and medieval times in customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events. This includes early classical, late classical, early medieval, and late medieval times,

There have been developments throughout the modern period. Customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events can be considered in more detail. The 16th century has some reference to customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events. The early 16th century, early mid 16th century, mid 16th century, late mid 16th century, and late 16th century have not yet been closely examined. In the 17th century there is some reference to customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events. The early 17th century, early mid 17th centry, mid 17th century, late-mid 17th century, and late 17th century have not yet been examined.

In the 18th centuries there is reference to customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events. The early 18th century, early-mid 18th century, mid 18th century, and late-mid 18th century are not yet explored in detail on this site. Thelate 18th century can be connected.

Connections to the 19th century are developing. Customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events can be considered. The early 19th century can be connected. The early-mid 19th century can be connected. The mid 19th century can be connected, the late-mid 19th century, and the late 19th century also.

Connections to the 20th century involving customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events including those of the early 20th century, early-mid 20th century, and mid 20th century can be considered. In the late-mid 20th century cultural events can be considered. There is not yet much detail for the early 1960s, late 1960s, early 1970s or late 1970s.

In the late 20th century there are connections to cultural events. Details of the early 1980s, late 1980s, early 1990s, and late 1990s are also being developed.

In the early 21st century details of recreation and entertainment, and cultural events can be considered. The early 2000s with cultural events and specific connections to 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 is also developing.

The late 2000s with cultural events of 2006 is also developing. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quarters provide raw material for analysis, and so does 2007 including the 1st quarter, 2nd quarter, 3rd quarter down to July, August, and September. The 4th quarter down to October, November amd December can also be examined. 2008 including the 1st quarter with January, February, and March, the 2nd quarter with April, May, and June, and the 3rd quarter with July, August, and September can be considered. The fourth quarter including October and November can also be connected.

The future including the near future down to next month, (November 2008 and December 2008), next quarter, next year, the middle future, and far future has not yet been well examined.


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