If you’re reading Hyperallergic, you’re already well aware of the importance of culture to society, but what exactly is culture? How do we define it now? And is that definition different from what ...

All cultures are cultures of excellence; what makes the difference is how you define excellence. Culture At Its Core Culture is the expression of human intellectual achievement. It is the ...

Culture is central to defining humanity. Throughout history, many definitions have been proposed to describe what we mean when we talk about culture, leading to considerable confusion. But while ...

Remember when culture meant your grandmother’s folk dances and family recipes? Today, it’s TikTok trends and K-pop playlists. We’re in the middle of a fascinating identity crisis that would make any ...

Time magazine has its person of the year (it was the Ebola health workers for 2014 ), and likewise, Merriam-Webster, the company behind the trusted English dictionary, has its word of the year, which ...

Culture is a fuzzy concept, and as a result, there are probably just as many definitions as people trying to define it. Over the past few years of researching and analyzing culture, I’ve heard it ...

For more than 40 years, social scientists investigating the causes of poverty have tended to treat cultural explanations like Lord Voldemort: That Which Must Not Be Named. The reticence was a legacy ...

Japan's hot spring culture, currently under consideration by a government council for a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage bid, has been defined by an association as a long-standing practice of ...

What led humans on the unique path of cultural development? And can we do anything useful with newly reconstructed histories of this process? Culture is central to defining humanity. Throughout ...