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class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Culture theory</b> is the branch of comparative <a href="/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">anthropology</a> and <a href="/wiki/Semiotics" title="Semiotics">semiotics</a> that seeks to define the <a href="/wiki/Heuristic" title="Heuristic">heuristic</a> concept of <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a> in <a href="/wiki/Operationalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Operationalism">operational</a> and/or <a href="/wiki/Scientific_method" title="Scientific method">scientific</a> terms. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Culture_theory&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 19th century, "<a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a>" was used by some to refer to a wide array of <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> activities, and by some others as a synonym for "<a href="/wiki/Civilization" title="Civilization">civilization</a>". In the 20th century, <a href="/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">anthropologists</a> began theorizing about culture as an object of scientific analysis. Some used it to distinguish human <a href="/wiki/Adaptation_(biology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Adaptation (biology)">adaptive strategies</a> from the largely <a href="/wiki/Instinct" title="Instinct">instinctive</a> adaptive strategies of <a href="/wiki/Animal" title="Animal">animals</a>, including the adaptive strategies of other <a href="/wiki/Primate" title="Primate">primates</a> and non-human <a href="/wiki/Hominidae" title="Hominidae">hominids</a>, whereas others used it to refer to symbolic <a href="/wiki/Representation_(arts)" title="Representation (arts)">representations</a> and expressions of human experience, with no direct adaptive value. Both groups understood culture as being definitive of <a href="/wiki/Human_nature" title="Human nature">human nature</a>. </p><p>According to many <a href="/wiki/Theory" title="Theory">theories</a> that have gained wide acceptance among anthropologists, culture exhibits the way that humans interpret their <a href="/wiki/Biology" title="Biology">biology</a> and their <a href="/wiki/Social_environment" title="Social environment">environment</a>. According to this point of view, culture becomes such an integral part of human <a href="/wiki/Existentialism" title="Existentialism">existence</a> that it <i>is</i> the human environment, and most cultural <a href="/wiki/Social_change" title="Social change">change</a> can be attributed to human adaptation to <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">historical events</a>. Moreover, given that culture is seen as the primary adaptive mechanism of humans and takes place much faster than <a href="/wiki/Human_evolution" title="Human evolution">human biological evolution</a>, most cultural change can be viewed as culture adapting to itself. </p><p>Although most anthropologists try to define culture in such a way that it separates human beings from other animals, many human traits are similar to those of other animals, particularly the traits of other primates. For example, <a href="/wiki/Common_chimpanzee" class="mw-redirect" title="Common chimpanzee">chimpanzees</a> have big <a href="/wiki/Brain" title="Brain">brains</a>, but human brains are bigger. Similarly, <a href="/wiki/Bonobo" title="Bonobo">bonobos</a> exhibit complex <a href="/wiki/Non-human_animal_sexuality" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-human animal sexuality">sexual behaviour</a>, but human beings exhibit much more complex <a href="/wiki/Human_sexuality" title="Human sexuality">sexual behaviours</a>. As such, anthropologists often debate whether <a href="/wiki/Human_behaviour" class="mw-redirect" title="Human behaviour">human behaviour</a> is different from <a href="/wiki/Ethology" title="Ethology">animal behaviour</a> in degree rather than in kind; they must also find ways to distinguish cultural behaviour from sociological behaviour and <a href="/wiki/Psychological" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychological">psychological</a> behavior. </p><p>Acceleration and amplification of these various aspects of culture change have been explored by complexity economist, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110123150543/http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~wbarthur/Papers/Papers.html">W. Brian Arthur</a>. In his book, <i>The Nature of Technology</i>, Arthur attempts to articulate a <a href="/wiki/Theory_of_change" class="mw-redirect" title="Theory of change">theory of change</a> that considers that existing technologies (or material culture) are combined in unique ways that lead to novel new technologies. Behind that novel combination is a purposeful effort arising in human motivation. 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