However, these words all have different meanings, nuances, and connotations.
#Whats another word for things update
Update : you can find a follow up post here, with a more in-depth look at synonyms for culture, plus a name for the process of inventing imaginary cultures. Transitional words and phrases can create powerful links between ideas in your paper and can help your reader understand the logic of your paper. Unless some brilliant worldbuilder or anthropologist can suggest another term that’s as comprehensive as “culture”, but without all the contemporary cultural baggage? That’s going to be a lot of tags! And some of those will still be lightning rod words, like “Religion” I may just end up breaking the “culture” tags into smaller and more specific labels: customs, religion, crafts, traditions, etc.
What’s a worldbuilding blogger to do? I’m already trying out a change of the “culture” tag to “alien cultures” which should at least warn off the culture warriors but it probably will also discourage fantasy worldbuilders, since “alien” usually is equated with “extraterrestrial.” The Mayans had a culture and a civilization the Lakota have a culture, but not a civilization.
“Society” means the same as “culture” to most people (the implied sequel being “…and what’s wrong with it”) “folkways” might do, though it seems mainly to be a label for preindustrial traditions and crafts that have survived into modern times “culture patterns” still has that word “culture” in it “customs” is too narrow and “civilization” isn’t equivalent to culture. So what else can I use? My thesaurus suggests “society” “folkways” “customs” “culture patterns” “civilization.” None of these really fits. confluence, conjunction, convergence, convergency. So I need another term for what I mean when I say “culture.” Trouble is, “culture” is indeed the correct term for that whole field of study. 3 the coming together of two or more things to the same point. Someone who clicks on my “culture” tag looking for posts about the “culture wars” is not going to find what they’re looking for here! The trouble is, bloggers who use it and blog readers who click on it, almost always mean only one thing by it: contemporary culture, perhaps even just the culture reflected in contemporary media and implicitly, whichever aspect of contemporary culture most interests or offends them.įor us worldbuilders, “culture” means the entire body of tradition, shared knowledge, religious belief and practice, art (in the broadest sense), language and behavior that distinguishes a particular group of people from other groups. They’re tough and hard working, but tend to be poorer than the average American.I have both a tag and a category labeled “culture.” I’m thinking of changing it, if I can only think of a different word.
They just didn't seem to know they were supposed to be pathetic! They rejected that attitude along with the attempts of the city folk to reform them. The stereotype of hillbillies as being poor and socially backward might have elicited snickers among people in other regions (who naturally thought themselves of a higher social class than those backwoods hill dwelling hicks), but hillbillies were also noted for their independence and self-reliance. The actual word hillbilly may have been devised from the combination of the phrase paired with the Scottish word billies, which means “a fine fellow.”.In American culture, the term has come to be used to describe people who live in rural areas where poverty is rampant and the population is not highly educated.The term hillbilly has long been used to describe people who dwell in rural mountainous or hilly regions of the United States, especially in and around the Appalachian and Ozark Mountains of the southeastern region of the country.