1. Oktober 2023
The term migration is currently present in everyday political and social life. Frequently, this term can be found in daily newspapers, debates in the Bundestag or […]
17. September 2023
Masculinism and hegemonic masculinity are the names of a movement and at the same time terms of gender studies. They refer to the relations between men […]
17. September 2023
A context refers to the „circumstances in which an event, situation, or idea is understood.“ (cf. Oxford Dictionary 2018) The word comes from Latin and means […]
17. September 2023
The term is composed of the Latin ‚lingua‘ for ‚tongue‘ or ‚language‘ as well as ‚franca‘, which can either be understood as ‚free‘ or ‚open‘ or, […]
12. September 2023
The neologism culture sphere is a composition of the term culture as well as the geometrical body sphere and is due to Herder. Herder also refers […]
10. September 2023
According to Thomas, cultural standards are the central characteristics of a culture. They function as an orientation system for perceiving, thinking and acting. They are behavioral […]
10. September 2023
The term culture shock was coined by American anthropologist Kalvero Oberg in the 1960s. In his essay Practical Anthropology, Oberg looked at the experiences of students […]
9. September 2023
The cultural earth part concept describes a spatial division of the earth into different cultural areas, which is carried out on the basis of defined characteristics. […]
9. September 2023
Assmann and Assmann define cultural memory from a cultural studies perspective as „tradition within us, […] the texts, images, and rites that have been hardened over […]