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| | Deaf culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Culture is expressed by the interrelated and interdependent characteristics, behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, values, mores, history, and, typically, language of a group. | | | Deaf community and Deaf culture are two phrases used to refer to persons who are culturally Deaf as opposed to those who are deaf from the medical/audiological/pathological perspective. | | | Deaf President Now: The 1988 student strike at Gallaudet University was a watershed moment in the awareness of Deaf culture by the dominant American hearing culture. |
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| | Kava culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Kava is the original pau hana drink of working people to relax and ease achy muscles. | | | Pharmacologically, kava is recognized as an analgesic (pain killer), anxiolytic, and antibiotic. | | | The importance of the kava in Fiji is not so much physical, but a psychological event where stories are told and jokes bantered. |
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| | Culture theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Culture theory is the branch of anthropology and other related social science disciplines (e.g., sociology) that seeks to define the heuristic concept of culture in operational and/or scientific terms. | | | According to many theories that have gained wide acceptance among anthropologists, culture exhibits the way that humans interpret their biology and their environment. | | | In the 19th century, "culture" was used by some to refer to a wide array of human activities, and by others as a synonym for "civilization". |
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| | Cell culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Related to cell culture are tissue culture and organ culture, which refer to methods for growing pieces of tissue or entire organs removed from an organism in an artificial environment. | | | Due to the H5N1 pandemic threat, research into using cell culture for flu vaccines is being funded by the United States government in areas as diverse as using the common cold as a vector of adjuvants. | | | Cell lines that originate with humans are somewhat controversial in bioethics, as they may easily outlive their parent organism and lead to the discovery of lucrative medical treatments. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Alternative culture |
| | Regardless of whether or not alternative culture is truly "alternative", the sub-cultures that have existed and could be called "alternative" were often created as a response to perceived negative qualities in society. | | | Sub-cultures which could be seen as "alternative", seem, despite all their differences, to all have similar reasons for their creation, similar stories regarding their development and even several common values. | | | Alternative culture is a catch-all phrase used predominately by the media and the marketing industry to refer to a variety of separate sub-culturesâ (which are either loosely related or near-totally unrelated) â and are perceived by the general public as being outside or on the edge of so-called accepted mainstream culture. |
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| | Drug Policy Alliance: Drug Use as a Social Ritual. Chapter 18a |
| | In a true culture of progress the drug may still be used, but instead of becoming the paramount determinant of behavior it will be part of a diversified pattern of behavioral expressions. | | | The drug is not the instrumental imperative (14) of the house culture, but merely an adjunct in a rather hedonistic pursuit of pleasure and social identity. | | | Culture is probably more veraciously envisioned as a continuity, a flow from past to future, in which the labels survival and progress represent reversed positions which depend on availability (see figure 18.3). |
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| | culture_reconsidered.txt |
| | In contrast, the technique of the culture industry is, from the beginning, one of distribution and mechanical reproduction, and therefore always remains external to its object. | | | The importance of the culture industry in the spiritual constitution of the masses is no dispensation for reflection on its objective legitimation, its essential being, least of all by a science which thinks itself pragmatic. | | | Accordingly, the misinvestments of the culture industry are considerable, throwing those branches rendered obsolete by new techniques into crises, which seldom lead to changes for the better. |
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| | YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> culture |
| | Culture changes dynamically and people can (must?) teach and learn culture, making it a potentially rapid form of adaptation to change in physical conditions. | | | Moreover, anthropologists understand "culture" to refer not only to consumption goods, but to the general processes which produce such goods and give them meaning, and to the social relationships and practices in which such objects and processes become embedded. | | | 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. |
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| | Alternative culture |
| | Analysis of origins and the course of alternative culture from the mid-19th century with an emphasis on the second half of the 20th century, which does not necessarily mean singular attention given to the historical conditions fostering the rise and change of these phenomena. | | | All of the research should be concentrated in three mutually interconnected areas: theory (with emphasis on the sociological analysis of the phenomenon of alternative culture), art history (with emphasis on the analysis of historical relevance between individual spheres of alternative culture) and documentation. | | | Under this heading we find the culture of the underground, but one may also speak of the counter-culture, the sub-culture, the unofficial culture, the opposition or independent cultures, etc. Because this is a project of an exploratory nature, it is not possible to firmly fix the conceptual framework or research methods. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Culture industry |
| | The culture industry claims to serve the consumers' needs for entertainment, but conceals the way that it standardises these needs, manipulating the consumers to desire what it produces. | | | The theory proposes that culture not only mirrors society, but also takes an important role in shaping society through the processes of standardisation and commodification, creating objects rather than subjects. | | | The term culture industry was coined by Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895-1973). |
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| | Alternative culture |
| | Even though by its very definition alternative culture could mean practically anything, it is generally perceived by the public at large to be something very specific. | | | Even though the majority of alternative culture is American, other countries have contributed to it, most notably Japan. | | | One of the original missions of Alternative culture was to bridge the gap between audience and artist, especially in the case of Fugazi, as well as making music without the macho attitude that came with hair metal. |
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| | Effectiveness of the Subculture |
| | Of course, the mainstream culture's opposition to illicit drug use is not wholly negative in its effects. | | | A subject had to have used the drug frequently enough to be considered a regular user, but not so frequently that he was physically addicted to it (in the case of opiates) or that his level of use was likely to interfere with effective personal and social functioning. | | | Drug use is normalized with other life activities and is transformed from a covert to an overt activity subject to the pressures of public scrutiny. |
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| | Psychedelic Drugs in the Twentieth Century |
| | Progressing from psychedelic drugs to intravenous injection of Methedrine (methamphetamine) and then addiction to depressants (alcohol, barbiturates, and heroin) was one form of the descent into despair and misery that revealed how much in the drug culture had always been pathological. | | | Drugs can clear away the past and enhance the present; toward the inner garden, they can only point the way Lacking the grit of discipline and insight, the drug vision remains a sort of dream that cannot be brought over into daily life. | | | The power of psychedelic drugs to produce at least temporary adherence to a new conception of oneself and a new way of life can be regarded with an admiring eye, like Leary's, or a dubious eye, like Freedman's; in any case, the power was at its height when the drugs were a novelty. |
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| | Taylor & Francis Journals: Welcome |
| | Culture, Theory and Critique is an interdisciplinary journal for the transformation and development of critical theories in the humanities and social sciences. | | | Culture, Theory and Critique approach to theoretical refinement and innovation is one of interaction and hybridisation via recontextualisation and transculturation. | | | Culture, Theory and Critique is an intercultural journal whose success depends on contributions from a variety of sources, so that debate between different perspectives can be stimulated. |
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| | Kava Kava |
| | But kava is also drunk to relieve headaches, to restore vigor in the face of general weakness, to promote urination, to soothe an unruly stomach, to cure whooping cough in children, and to ease the symptoms of asthma and tuberculosis. | | | The various cultivars of kava are distinguished by both their physical characteristics and by their effects upon body and mind. | | | It is clear that kava offers a safe, effective alternative to prescription drugs for anxiety and insomnia, and that kava can in some cases provide relief for depression. |
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| | Drug Abuse - Probe Ministries |
| | Many proponents of the drug culture have linked drug use to spiritual values. | | | The drug of choice during the 1960s was LSD. | | | Parents themselves should be educated about drugs and drug paraphernalia. |
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| | bihu.html |
| | Biology and the two cultures The subject to be discussed here is the relationship between biology as one of natural sciences and humanitarian culture of the society within which biologists live. | | | Of particular importance is the professional culture of a biologist (his awareness of methods and theories), which should be an unalienable part of the general culture (where humanitarian interpretations of biological conceptions are also represented, see 3.5). | | | Both a breach between the spheres (the break-up of a culture) and the disappearance of the patterns of professional activities (the dissolution of a -221- culture) are equally destructive. |
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| | Bureau of Justice Statistics, Drugs and Crime Facts: Drug Use and Crime |
| | Cocaine/crack was the most common drug used: 45% for mothers and 26% for fathers. | | | Murders that occurred specifically during a narcotics felony, such as drug trafficking or manufacturing, are considered drug related. | | | Among those who tested positive for use of any drug, the largest group was age 17. |
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| | thmeyer.txt |
| | An ethnography is generally considered to be a description and interpretation of a culture, focusing on their beliefs, values, rituals, and general patterns of behavior in relationships. | | | The art forms of a society express cultural themes and individual emotions in ways that are understandable, even if these themes and emotions cannot be consciously articulated by all members of the culture. | | | We can understand alternative rock's role as symbolic communication and as a means of integrating and expressing the values of a culture, by examining several aspects of that music. |
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| | Popular culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The content of popular culture is determined by the daily interactions, needs and desires, and cultural 'moments' that make up the everyday lives of the non-elite. | | | This urbanization, combined with increased literacy, improvements in education and public health, and new technology, provided the socio-economic bases of modern popular culture. | | | Popular culture, being so widely available, has been opened to much criticism. |
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| | Tipsheet: Deaf Culture |
| | This behavior may seem unusual; however, if we remember that Deaf culture highly values being interconnected with all of its members, the behavior makes a great deal of sense. | | | From the Deaf culture perspective, it is the act of Âtalking that clearly separates the two groups. | | | The American Deaf culture is a unique linguistic minority that uses American Sign Language (ASL) as its primary mode of communication. |
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| | Caught in the Drug Culture - Official Scientology Media Information Web Site |
| | Drug and alcohol abuse in Denmark is on the rise — with youth the worst victims of a drug culture that begins with adults | | | The drug culture is saying, ‘all your problems and bad feelings are just chemicals in your brain, you can feel better with a drug.’ Kids get that message and they do it their own way.” | | | The Say No to Drugs campaign promotes that drug education and prevention are essential priorities to end the drug problem, and need at least as much attention as rehabilitation in order to actually solve the drug problem in the long term. |
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| | Tissue Culture micropropagation |
| | Organ cultures involve an organ, such as a bud, and manipulation of cultural conditions so that this organ remains organized throughout all of the cultural procedures. | | | Callus cultures and suspension cultures, in contrast, begin with pieces of tissues and cells from an organized part of the plant but cultural conditions are manipulated to create an unorganized state, e.g. | | | By maintaining the organization which characterizes an organ, we maintain its integrity and function in organ culture in the same way as it is maintained in natural methods of vegetative propagation, e.g. |
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| | Drug Watch International |
| | Drug Watch International is a volunteer non-profit drug information network and advocacy organization that promotes the creation of healthy drug-free cultures in the world and opposes the legalization of drugs. | | | Illicit drug use among teens is on the decline, according to the largest and most comprehensive study of drug use in the United States. | | | Teen perception of the risk of drug use continues to remain high. |
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| | biology - Culture |
| | Culture is dynamic and can be taught and learned, making it a potentially rapid form of adaptation to change in physical conditions. | | | Attentive to the theory of evolution, they assumed that all human beings are equally evolved, and that the fact that all humans have cultures must in some way be a result of human evolution. | | | 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. |
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| | Kevin Baldeosingh - The biology of culture |
| | Evolutionary theory is an example of the latter; an example of the former is the widely-held belief that culture determines human nature. | | | culture - are mainly the result of ecology, geography and technology. | | | This belief in the power of culture to shape human nature is particularly pernicious because it permeates all strata of society, from the academic to the political to the folk. |
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| | A caring mother is a childs best defence against drug culture |
| | The barrier that good parents can provide for their children against the drugs culture is breaking down in cities where drugs are most freely available, researchers have found. | | | We spell out the dangers of drug abuse to children on TV and launch drug prevention initiatives in schools but it seems that no-one is really tackling the issue of parental responsibility. | | | The report, published in Addiction, the journal of the Society for the Study of Addiction, states: Both the quality of family relationships and the structure of families appear to be significant influences on youth drug use. |
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| | YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Kava |
| | The effects of drinking kava, in order of sensation, are slight tongue and lip numbing caused by the contraction of the blood vessels in these areas (the lips and skin surrounding may appear unusually pale); mildly talkative and euphoric behavior; calming, sense of well-being, clear thinking; and relaxed muscles. | | | There is ongoing research into the causes of kava liver toxicity and why it apparently does not affect traditional kava users. | | | The issue is controversial and debate is fuelled by economic interests of kava-exporting nations of the Pacific Islands as well as disagreements between the medical establishment and proponents of herbal and natural medicine. |
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