Civilization vs. Barbarism — What's the Difference?

A civilization (or civilisation) is a complex society that is characterized by urban development, social stratification, a form of government, and symbolic systems of communication (such as writing).Civilizations are intimately associated with and often further defined by other socio-politico-economic characteristics, such as centralization, the domestication of both humans and other organisms, specialization of labour, culturally-ingrained ideologies of progress and supremacism, monumental architecture, taxation, societal dependence upon farming and expansionism.Historically, "a civilization" has often been understood as a larger and "more advanced" culture, in implied contrast to smaller, supposedly primitive cultures. In this broad sense, a civilization contrasts with non-centralized tribal societies, including the cultures of nomadic pastoralists, Neolithic societies or hunter-gatherers; however, sometimes it also contrasts with the cultures found within civilizations themselves.

The condition of having no civilizing influences or refined culture; ignorance or crudity

An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked by progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of record-keeping, including writing, and the appearance of complex political and social institutions.

Savage violence or cruelty

The type of culture and society developed by a particular nation or region or in a particular epoch

The use of words, forms, or expressions considered incorrect or unacceptable.

The act or process of civilizing or reaching a civilized state.

A specific word, form, or expression so used.

Cultural or intellectual refinement; good taste.

A barbaric act.

Modern society with its conveniences

The condition of existing barbarically.

An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical development.

A word hybridizing Ancient Greek and Latin or other heterogeneous roots.

(uncountable) Human society, particularly civil society.

An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.

The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.

An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.

The state or quality of being civilized.

A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.

(obsolete) The act of rendering a criminal process civil.

An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.

Collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World

A brutal barbarous savage act

The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.

Rendering a criminal process civil.

A society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations);

The social process whereby societies achieve civilization

A particular society at a particular time and place;

The quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste;