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 , December 30, 2021
Cultural behavior is the ability of humans to align their behavior across groups in a dynamic way that emerges with shared experience. Culture isn't centrally planned or controlled but is rather a form of spontaneous order that occurs within any group including nations, ethnicities, cities, organizations, schools, families, subcultures and super cultures. Cultural behaviors overlap in endlessly complex ways whereby most individuals belong to multiple cultures and adapt their behavior to cultural context. The following are common examples of cultural behavior.
Aesthetics
Architecture
Art
Body Language
Celebrations
Ceremonies
Conceptual Symbols
Cuisine
Customs
Duties & Freedoms
Epic Meaning
Ethics
Etiquette
Fashion
Games, Sports & Competition
Holidays & Observances
Humor
Hygiene Factors
Inside Jokes
Language
Lifestyles
Methods
Mores
Music & Dance
Mutualism
Myth
Norms
Pastimes
Performance Art
Politeness
Reciprocity
Respect
Rites of Passage
Rituals
Roles
Saving Face
Sensibilities
Shared Beliefs
Shared Frames of Reference
Shared Meaning
Shared Values
Slang
Social Acceptance
Social Bonds
Social Constructs
Social Habits
Social Identity
Social Rejection
Social Routines
Social Status
Status Symbols
Storytelling
Styles
Traditions
Unspoken Rules
Visual Communication
Visual Symbols
Ways of Life
Aesthetics are perceptions of beauty. These can be individual whereby nobody else may understand your sense of things. More commonly, they are an element of culture whereby you can feel a shared sense of beauty with others.
Culture emerges spontaneously and is separate from systems that are defined, planned and controlled. Cultures can provide duties, roles and freedoms that may conflict with those of systems. In many cases, a system will try to influence culture to align to its way. For example, a system of industrial production that tries to influence family culture to create "better" workers or consumers.
Epic meaning is some shared or personal sense that something is deeply meaningful and moving.
Hygiene factors are norms that will get you rejected by a culture if you don't conform but won't impress anyone if you do conform. For example, a culture where it is a norm to wear clothing.
An inside joke is humor based on shared experience.
Mutualism is behavior that is mutually beneficial. For example, a family culture with norms that help everyone in the family by sharing burdens such as housework and the need to earn income.
Reciprocity is behavior that attempts to repay kindnesses. For example, an organizational culture where a manager tries to get an employee a promotion for supporting them in their mission. This is a cultural thing that is independent of a system that requires the manager to promote high performing employees.
Rites of passage are celebrations and rituals that mark the life milestones of an individual. For example, a birthday party.
Saving face is a cultural behavior that helps individuals of a culture to avoid social embarrassment. For example, a culture where it is unacceptable to harshly criticize someone in front of others.
Cultures typically offer both social acceptance and social rejection whereby people can be accepted by fitting into norms or rejected for perceived violations.
Language is created by cultures. People think in language such that culture defines the building blocks of thought and communication. As such, culture is an powerful force that arguably exceeds the influence of systems.
Sensibilities are norms or beliefs that are considered obvious common sense such that people may not realize that they are products of culture. For example, the sense in some cultures that it is obvious that shoes shouldn't be worn inside a home.
Social constructs are things that are invented by a culture. All abstract concepts such as love, freedom or money fit into this category.

Cultural Behavior

This is the complete list of articles we have written about cultural behavior.
Aesthetics
Architecture
Art
Cultural Behavior
Culture
Emergence
Epic Meaning
Ethics
Fashion
Humor
Hygiene Factors
Inside Jokes
Language
Lifestyles
Mores
Myth
Norms
Reciprocity
Respect
Rites Of Passage
Saving Face
Shared Meaning
Social Acceptance
Social Constructs
Social Identity
Social Status
Storytelling
Subcultures
Systems
Traditions
Unspoken Rules
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