Quotes About Culture

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.

Obviously, Kanye and I are very different in the way we express ourselves publicly. He's so passionate... about art, about culture, about creativity. And he's really good at it. And that honesty manifests itself in ways that are not politically correct, not socially acceptable sometimes.

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

Fiction is socially meaningful.

The environment of San Francisco has so much history to it that I really appreciate. Musically, socially, and culturally. There's this new culture of people; it's a crazy place to be.

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.

Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are.

Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.

I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

I think it should be socially acceptable for men to like 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt.

I think, probably, socially, in some ways New York may be the least American city. It represents too many things that Americans really don't entirely want in their lives.

My wife and I will often have conversations about 'Good Times' and 'The Jeffersons' and 'Sanford and Son.' They were doing incredible stuff that was very funny but also very socially conscious.

A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'

I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has also led to extraordinary cultural contributions that I'm very proud of, but it's not a real category and our society is damaged by insisting on it.

You're either in music socially and culturally to get through life, or you're not.

Thinking about the artists I've loved through the years, my favorites are the ones who've made music with cultural, societal and political significance.

Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues.

Multicultural societies are multi-conflict societies.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.