Shared language, values, norms, traditions, pastimes, customs, beliefs and conventions that cause people to identify with one another..
“Culture” can also imply everyday attitudes, values, assumptions and prejudices, and the rituals and practices that express them, from magical beliefs to gender roles and racial hierarchies.
In this sense, our instincts, thoughts, and acts have an ancestry which cultural history can illuminate and examine critically..
The earliest school of archaeological thought in the 20th century, the cultural historical approach, focused on the systematics of space (where groups were located, how they migrated through time, and how sites and regions were organized) and time (dating)..
Definition.
The cultural-historical theory of development is a general metatheory (theoretical framework) of human development introduced by Russian/Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky that strongly affected the further progress of developmental and educational psychology..
A culture can be defined by features that are more or less inclusive
Where cultures are defined by characteristics that are typically used to describe ethnic nations, including shared history, religion, ethnicity/race, newcomers are less easily able to join them and be recognized as full members
The culture-historical method was developed out of the theories of historians and anthropologists, to some degree to help archaeologists organize and comprehend the vast amount of archaeological data that had been and was still being collected in the 19th and early 20th centuries by antiquarians
Historical culture embraces both material and immaterial culture as well as academic and popular articulations
The rise of the concept had institutional reasons, associated with the emergence of history didactics in Europe, and intellectual reasons, as the cultural turn helped the concept to achieve recognition from the 1980s onwards
