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Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Culture Culture is a part of the social system and hierarchically equal to an economic system, political system, or legal system. The result was a belief in cultural relativism; the belief that an individual's actions had to be understood in terms of his or her culture; that a specific cultural artifact (e.g. Cultural studies developed in the late 20th century in part through the reintroduction of Marxist thought into sociology, and in part through the articulation of sociology and other academic disciplines such as literary criticism. www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Culture   (2297 words)

Culture By the late nineteenth century, anthropologists argued for a broader definition of culture that they could apply to a wide variety of societies, they began to argue that culture is human nature, and is rooted in the universal human capacity to classify experiences, and encode and communicate them symbolically. As a rule, archeologists focus on material culture, and cultural anthropologists focus on symbolic culture, although ultimately both groups are interested in the relationship between these two dimensions. Cultural studies developed in the late 20th century, in part through the reintroduction of Marxist thought in sociology, and in part through the articulation of sociology and other academic disciplines such as literary criticism, in order to focus on the analysis of subcultures in capitalist societies. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/cu/Cultural.html   (777 words)

culture - Anarchopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) There resulted a belief in cultural relativism; the belief that one had to understand an individual's actions in terms of his or her culture; that one had to understand a specific cultural artifact (a ritual, for example) in terms of the larger symbolic system of which it forms a part. Modern cultural theory also considers the possibility that (a) culture itself is a product of stabilization tendencies inherent in evolutionary pressures toward self-similarity and self-cognition of societies as wholes, or tribalisms. Cultural studies developed in the late 20th century, in part through the re-introduction of Marxist thought into sociology, and in part through the articulation of sociology and other academic disciplines such as literary criticism. eng.anarchopedia.org /culture   (2878 words)

Culture By the late nineteenth century, anthropologists argued for a broader definition of culture that they could apply to a wide variety of societies, they began to argue that culture is human nature, and is rooted in the universal human capacity to classify experiences, and encode and communicate them symbolically. As a rule, archeologists focus on material culture, and cultural anthropologists focus on symbolic culture, although ultimately both groups are interested in the relationship between these two dimensions. Cultural studies developed in the late 20th century, in part through the reintroduction of Marxist thought in sociology, and in part through the articulation of sociology and other academic disciplines such as literary criticism, in order to focus on the analysis of subcultures in capitalist societies. www.fastload.org /cu/Culture.html   (824 words)

Dominator culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dominator culture is a term coined by futurist and writer, Riane Eisler. He used the idea of dominator culture in part to illuminate what happened to cultures native to the Americas, and in part to describe the contrasting, antithetical character of Western patriarchal culture — indicating, for example, its perennial lack of social conscience, and its lack of concern for the environment. Alien Dreamtime Talk by Terence McKenna that describes dominator culture in the context of his main ideas. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dominator_culture   (263 words)

Pot politics Dominator deities tend to be punitive and masculine. Dominator concepts such as slavery, the divine right of kings, the use of torture, the view of female sexuality as a threat to male spirituality, the use of violence towards children, have all begun to be reexamined and rejected. Dominator cultures have a long tradition of prohibiting marijuana and other sacred plants, with users of marijuana and other magical herbs having been persecuted and slaughtered for millennia. www.cannabisculture.com /articles/1577.html   (926 words)

Dominator culture - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography Dominator culture is a term coined by futurist and writer, Riane Eisler. He used the idea of dominator culture in part to illuminate what happened to cultures native to the Americas, and in part to describe the contrasting, antithetical character of Western patriarchal culture — indicating, for example, its perennial lack of social conscience, and its lack of concern for the environment. Alien Dreamtime Talk by Terence McKenna that describes dominator culture in the context of his main ideas. www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Dominator_culture   (278 words)

Malcolm Hollick's Post | Shift In Action Our culture seems to me to be focused so strongly on aggressive, competitive, either/or qualities (which are usually considered to be more the qualities of a young masculine sensibility), instead of the qualities of cooperation, community, partnership, and sustainability (which are considered to be more feminine qualities). If the dominant culture favors these immature male qualities over all others, it is easy to see why greed, hunger for power and more power, money and more money, are guiding the choices we are making as a society. A factor of note in the transition to Dominator culture is the rise of ethanol as preferred sacramental intoxicant. www.shiftinaction.com /node/4669   (2824 words)

'ESCAPING THE MATRIX'--Building a Transformational Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) We need a culture based on mutual understanding and cooperation rather than on war and conquest, a culture based on common sense rather than dysfunctional doctrine, on respect for life rather than the pursuit of profit, and on democracy in place of elite rule. Domination is the "old vision," and as Quinn points out, the world "will not be saved by people with the old vision." If we want to save the world, we must become people with a "new vision" regarding our relationships with one another as human beings, a vision based on mutual understanding and harmony. A partnership culture is a culture of liberation, as well as being a culture that facilitates social harmony and economic sustainability. www.organicconsumers.org /2006/article_1379.cfm   (3807 words)

culture They began to argue that culture is human nature, and that culture has its roots in the universal human capacity to classify experiences, and encode and communicate them symbolically. cultural anthropologists focus on symbolic culture, although ultimately both groups maintain interests in the relationship between these two dimensions. Cultural studies developed in the late 20th century, in part through the reintroduction of Marxist thought into www.findthelinks.com /politics/culture.htm   (766 words)

Part IV: AWAKENING She re-examined 30,000 years of Western history to demonstrate that for many thousands of years before they were the dominator model was introduced by violent invaders, many of the earliest Western societies were organized on the partnership model. Although unreported in the corporate media and unrepresented by a corporate dominated political process, an awakening of people by the tens and hundreds of millions to partnership values and a partnership world view is spreading around the globe. Thus, liberated from the trance induced by of dominator cultures and institutions the mind able to observe that partnership is the way of nature and fully within the range of human possibility. www.pcdf.org /Living_Economies/IV_Awakening.htm   (1998 words)

Culture Culture is refined living that arises in a peaceful, stable society. Beyond their cold calculation, there are parts of Chiss culture that exhibit an intriguing mix of elegant beauty, which may be attributed to the differences caused in Chiss society after the glacial movement that plunged Csilla into its long ice age. Elements of the pre-glacial Chiss culture are visible in the smooth, striking lines of Chiss technology, as well as in Cheunh, the native tongue of the Chiss. www.globaloneness.com /culture   (1051 words)

Finding Our Way Home In fact, although it is certainly true that dominator culture has done a very good job of discrediting, repressing, and in many cases even destroying the old ways, I believe that many traces remain, traces upon which intelligent, thoughtful people have rebuilt a functioning tradition. Indeed, the dominator culture is even today expending a great deal of energy repressing the practice of the old ways among whites, something we would not expect to see if these ways were simply fanciful dabbling in imagined or stolen traditions. I acknowledge the damage the dominator culture has done, and I take responsibility for working to make it right, for myself by reclaiming and reweaving the old ways of my ancestors, and for you by honoring and supporting your struggle for justice and respecting you as my equal. www.awakenedwoman.com /morwen.htm   (1293 words)

bit-tech.net | Corsair Dominator Twin2X2048-8888C4DF - Introduction At the end of August, Corsair announced its Dominator line of memory modules with a new breed of heatspreader design that had the potential to breathe a new interest in to performance memory products. In fact, Corsair's Dominator 'heatsink' is so far from a standard heatspreader that it shares more properties with a traditional heatsink than it does with the memory heatspreaders that you're no doubt familiar with. The Dominator modules themselves are much taller than your standard memory module - they're a massive 52mm tall, compared to a standard module that is typically no more than about 31-32mm in height. www.bit-tech.net /hardware/2006/09/11/corsair_dominator_8888c4df/1.html   (567 words)

Culture - Psychology Wiki - a Wikia wiki In practice, culture referred to élite goods and activities such as haute cuisine, high fashion or haute couture, museum-caliber art and classical music, and the word cultured described people who knew about, and took part in, these activities. And many societies take the task of education out of the hands of priests and shamans and place it on a wider footing, so that the young (at least) gain a practical and emotional identification with a standardised version of their nurturing culture. Groups of immigrants, exiles, or minorities often form cultural associations or clubs to preserve their own cultural roots in the face of a surrounding (generally more locally-dominant) culture. psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Culture   (3225 words)

11. Lessons From History Prior to this, we are told, human culture, such as it was, consisted of stone-age barbarism and savagery, and is of little interest or relevance to the "high civilizations" that have emerged since that distant age. The gylanic culture on the Mediterranean island of Crete [see chart], which being characterized by written language, survived by definition into historical, literate times, cannot be described in any other terms than as being "fully civilized" – again, in the non-pejorative sense of being a large and complex social system. After the conquest of the partnership cultures by the dominator cultures was complete, the wheels of "progress" began turning once again, and what are generally recognized today as the "first civilizations" began their march toward an entirely different destiny than the one toward which their gylanic predecessors had been aimed. harmonhouse.net /fdl/metacon/chap11.html   (5299 words)

Template - Always Save as a Different File Name So wrapped up in the dominator reality, we often look up to these, so called, leaders, admiring them, aspiring to be like them, without ever questioning the ethical implications of a society that allows so few to accumulate and control most the world’s resources. In spite of this evidence, the dominator culture has made these compounds, most of which are physically harmless in their natural state, illegal, while it continues to promote the use of mind control drugs upon the mass population. I believe the dominator culture is correct in the assumption that ecstasy may lead to its demise. www.cliftonunitarian.com /toddstalks/domination&ecstasy.htm   (2709 words)

Riane Eisler on "The Power of Partnership"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) She emphasizes that a shift from the domination to the partnership model as the primary guide for structuring our beliefs, institutions, and relations, is extremely urgent. She points out that partnership and domination are "two extremes of a continuum" and emphasizes that it's always a matter of degree. But people continue to engage in thinking and action related to the domination model because of the cultural beliefs and institutions that support it, she says, among them the family, the workplace, economic and political systems. www.talentdevelop.com /reisler.html   (2467 words)

McKenna's theory, in his own words This behavioral style of male dominance was chemically interrupted by psilocybin in the diet, so it allowed the style of social organization called partnership to emerge, and that that occured during the period when language, altruism, planning, moral values, esthetics, music and so forth -- everything associated with humanness -- emerged during that period. So, this is what the historic dilemma is: we have all these qualities that were evolved during the suppression of male dominance that are now somewhat at loggerheads with the tendency of society in a situation of re-established male dominance. This means that culturally we are living out some kind of schizophrenic delusion, because we live our lives totally ignorant of these possibilities, or perhaps only glimpsing them at the edge of anesthesia, or something like that, unless, of course, we have the courage to be counter-cultural heads. users.lycaeum.org /~sputnik/McKenna/Evolution/theory.html   (9132 words)

News Services Perhaps the most formidable barrier to negotiating this transition is the ability of dominator cultures and institutions to create a self-fulfilling prophecy by creating what each individual experiences as a dog eat dog reality of violent competition that offers only two choices -- be a big winner or risk being an even bigger loser. A culturally awakened consciousness is relatively immune to the distorted cultural conditioning promoted by corporate media, advertising, and political demagogues. Where dominator values of greed, competitive self-interest, and short-term advantage are primary, emergence will tend to reproduce dominator cultures and institutions. www.simpleliving.net /news/archives_article.asp?id=307   (2150 words)

The Ecology of Joy Cultures change, as people are born and people die, as cultures grow by migration, assimilation, or division. Cultures are also transformed by the effects of tools, technology and media. Cultural evolution does NOT have to be survival of the fittest. cable.doit.wisc.edu /ecojoy   (2233 words)

Paradigm Shift And the configuration that I saw was that, instead of this authoritarianism - strong men rule in the family or the tribe or state, with male dominance, domination of one half of humanity over the other - you have a system which is both politically and economically egalitarian and democratic. Dominator model says strong men rule, be it in the family, tribe or state. Dominator education is not going to produce the "high quality human capital" that these people talk so much about. www.partnershipway.org /html/subpages/articles/paradymshift.htm   (6221 words)

Freestone Innerprizes: Online Articles This is the first reason that I see why most babies are born in hospitals under the veil of drugs: our dominator culture systematically disempowers the uniquely female expressions of power. It is frightening to claim female power in the face of the patristic ruling class, or dominator culture – our preferred term so that we might liberate the role of "father" from being related to all the horrible consequences of domination. As birth is a hidden event, associated with sickness and death (hospital), the media portrays the values of the dominator class, which rules through fear. www.freestone.org /articles/FearOfBirth.html   (1533 words)

Toward a Partnership Society This is in contrast to the dominator model, in which rigid hierarchies, authoritarianism, and violence prevail. This is one of the supermyths-metamythologies-of dominator oriented societies. Under feudalism, a more pure dominator model, the only honorable way to get land was to go next door and kill your neighbor. www.partnershipway.org /html/subpages/articles/towardpart.htm   (1762 words)

Culture - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) There are separate pages about "The Culture" in the novels of Iain M. Banks and about the sociological term "Cultural Creatives". Another one is about the Jamaican reggae group; see Culture (band). 18th and early 19th century scholars, and many people today, often identified culture with "civilization" and opposed both to "nature." Thus, people lacking elements of "high culture" were often considered to be more "natural," and elements of high culture were often criticized, or defended, for repressing human nature. www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Culture   (802 words)

Partnership in Culture and Society We tend to think of culture as "just the way things are", as if it is a mountain, to huge for us to move or alter. This is the book that first introduced the Cultural Transformation Theory and changed the lives of millions of men and women world wide. This book examines how culture has dictated our beliefs, ideas and even feelings about everything- even our most intimate relationships- and offers us ways to change ourselves or relationships and our culture. www.partnershipway.org /html/cultmain.htm   (434 words)

Dominator Culture There is a degree of instinct for domination genetically built into humans and other primates, particularly the males, but in dominator cultures, the environmental influence toward domination far exceeds the genetic influence. Almost all of humanity was converted to the Dominator Culture *only* by external infection, from a few original foci of emotionally ill groups of people that spread their ideas and emotions by war and conquest. So, Dominator Culture is now in control because the original Partnership meme complex, which evolved all over the world, was supplanted (and often destroyed by force, along with its hosts) by the Dominator meme complex (virus), which arose in only a few places, but was very infectious (evangelistic). maxwell.lucifer.com /virus/alt.memetics/dominator.html   (6569 words)

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