Cultural events

These include irregular and regularly scheduled events such as disasters, fairs, conventions, holidays, and other social gatherings.

   

Miscellanous events

This is a grouping for events not yet classified

Disasters

These include natural and manmade disasters such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, pestilences, airplane crashes, multiple murders and battles (usually disastrous for at least the loser).

Gatherings

These involve fairs, conventions, conferences, and the like. These may or may not be regularly scheduled.

Holidays

Also include celebrations and commemorations of other events.


This will include connections to science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and biology. Personal studies such as the human body, psychology, and biography are important.

Anthropology including social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups will be useful.

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Other Culture

Material culture including industrial technology, building technology, foodstuffs, clothing, transportation technology, communication technology, and other artifacts can be connected. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy often has a role. Other behavioral culture including customs, occupations, and recreation and entertainment is also often connected.

Institutions

Families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families are closely linked to cultural events. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and particular schools is also linked. Economics including economic activities and industries is also linked to cultural events. Economic systems including firms, networks, system types, and system behavior can also be connected. Government including law, government activity, and government structure have some connection to them. Particular governments including local, national, and international governments take notice of cultural events. Many cultural events are linked to religion, including religious beliefs and practices. Religious organization including unstructured, fragmented, and highly structured religions may take note of cultural events. Particular religions including pagan religion, Asiatic religion, and secularism are connected. Abrahamic religion including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism includes several religious events.

Sociology

Connections to social structure and change including social structure is vital to the study of cultural events. Social types including hunting and gathering societies, horticultural societies, agrarian societies, and industrial societies can be connected. Social change including factors of change, change processes, and particular changes is also linked to cultural events. Connections to communities including Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and New York City are valuable. The study of cultural events involves comparison of events of different peoples. Groupings of these include African peoples. Peoples can be followed by examination of particular nations, so far including Bangladesh, Russia, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines. Western Civilization including Brazil will be a significant area of study. Anglic peoples including those of the United States will be important. Asiatic peoples including those of Pakistan will be useful. South Asian peoples such as those of India may give examples. Oriental peoples such as those of China can be connected. Southeast Asian peoples including those of Indonesia can be examined. Information on cultural events of American Indian peoples including some of those found in the United States and Brazil is scarcer.

History

Prehistory including early prehistory, middle prehistory, and late prehistory has not yet been closely examined. In antiquity, some evidence from the 5th millennium BC, 4th millennium BC, 3rd millennium BC, 2nd millennium BC, and early first millennium BC can be considered. Classical and medieval events of early classical, late classical, early medieval, and late medieval times can also be considered. Modern history will be useful. Cultural events of the 16th century including the early 16th century, early-mid 16th century, mid 16th century, late-mid 16th century, late 16th century can be examined. Cultural events of the 17th century including the early 17th century, early-mid 17th century, mid 17th century, late-mid 17th century, and late 17th century can be examined. Events of the 18th century including the early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late-mid 18th century, and late 18th century can be considered. Events of the 19th century including the early 19th century, early-mid 19th century, mid 19th century, late-mid 19th century, and late 19th century will also be ueful. The 20th century, including the early 20th century, early-mid 20th century, mid 20th century, late-mid 20th century with the early 1960s, late 1960s, early 1970s, and late 1970s, and late 20th century with the early 1980s, late 1980s, early 1990s, and late 1990s is easier to examine. The late 1990s including 1998, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000 can be considered.

The early 21st century including the early 2000s down to 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 is connected. The late 2000s including 2006 has various events to be considered. Current events of 2007 in the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, and fourth quarter can also be connected. Events of 2008 can also be considered. The future has yet to be closely examined.


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