Tradition vs. Culture — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tradition and Culture
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Definitions
Tradition➦
A tradition is a belief or behavior (folk custom) passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of folklore, common examples include holidays or impractical but socially meaningful clothes (like lawyers' wigs or military officers' spurs), but the idea has also been applied to social norms such as greetings.
Culture➦
Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, which is shown by the diversity of cultures across societies. A cultural norm codifies acceptable conduct in society; it serves as a guideline for behavior, dress, language, and demeanor in a situation, which serves as a template for expectations in a social group.
Tradition➦
The passing down of elements of a culture from generation to generation, especially by oral communication
Cultural practices that are preserved by tradition.
Culture➦
The arts, beliefs, customs, institutions, and other products of human work and thought considered as a unit, especially with regard to a particular time or social group
Edwardian culture.
Japanese culture.
Tradition➦
A mode of thought or behavior followed by a people continuously from generation to generation; a custom or usage
The traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.
Culture➦
These arts, beliefs, and other products considered with respect to a particular subject or mode of expression
Musical culture.
Oral culture.
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Tradition➦
A set of such customs and usages viewed as a coherent body of precedents influencing the present
Followed family tradition in dress and manners.
Culture➦
The set of predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize a group or organization
A manager who changed the corporate culture.
Tradition➦
A precept or a body of precepts that are not written in the sacred book of a religion, such as the Bible, but are considered holy or true.
Culture➦
Mental refinement and sophisticated taste resulting from the appreciation of the arts and sciences
A woman of great culture.
Tradition➦
A style or method of an activity or practice, especially of artistic expression, that is recognized and sometimes imitated
Satire in the tradition of Jonathan Swift.
Culture➦
Special training and development
Voice culture for singers and actors.
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Tradition➦
A piece of folklore
"a popular medieval tradition that identified the queen of Sheba with the Blessed Virgin Mary" (Nicholas Clapp).
Culture➦
The cultivation of soil; tillage
The culture of the soil.
Tradition➦
A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.
Culture➦
The breeding or cultivation of animals or plants for food, the improvement of stock, or other purposes.
Tradition➦
A commonly held system. en
Culture➦
The growing of microorganisms, tissue cells, or other living matter in a specially prepared nutrient medium.
Tradition➦
An established or distinctive style or method:
Culture➦
Such a growth or colony, as of bacteria.
Tradition➦
The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
Culture➦
To cultivate (soil or plants).
Tradition➦
(obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
Culture➦
To grow (microorganisms or other living matter) in a specially prepared nutrient medium.
Tradition➦
The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
Culture➦
To use (a substance) as a medium for culture
Culture milk.
Tradition➦
The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.
Culture➦
The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
Tradition➦
Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed.
Will you mock at an ancient tradition begun upon an honorable respect?
Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré.
Culture➦
The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
Tradition➦
An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered.
Culture➦
The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
Tradition➦
That body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by Christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing.
Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle.
Culture➦
(anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
Tradition➦
To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
The following story is . . . traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.
Culture➦
(botany) Cultivation.
Tradition➦
An inherited pattern of thought or action
Culture➦
(microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
Tradition➦
A specific practice of long standing
Culture➦
The growth thus produced.
I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.
Culture➦
A group of bacteria.
Culture➦
(cartography) The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such as names and the symbols for towns, roads, meridians, and parallels.
Culture➦
(archaeology) A recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.
Culture➦
(euphemism) Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)
Culture➦
(transitive) to maintain in an environment suitable for growth especially of bacteria cultivate}}
Culture➦
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Culture➦
The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
Culture➦
The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
If vain our toilWe ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
Culture➦
The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.
What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a, the Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to express by the more artificial word culture.
The list of all the items of the general life of a people represents that whole which we call its culture.
Culture➦
The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms (such as fungi or eukaryotic cells from mulitcellular organisms) in artificial media or under artificial conditions.
Culture➦
Those details of a map, collectively, which do not represent natural features of the area delineated, as names and the symbols for towns, roads, houses, bridges, meridians, and parallels.
Culture➦
To cultivate; to educate.
They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured.
Culture➦
A particular society at a particular time and place;
Early Mayan civilization
Culture➦
The tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
Culture➦
All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Culture➦
(biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar);
The culture of cells in a Petri dish
Culture➦
(bacteriology) the product of cultivating micro-organisms in a nutrient medium
Culture➦
A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality;
They performed with great polish
I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose
Almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art
Culture➦
The attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization;
The developing drug culture
The reason that the agency is doomed to inaction has something to do with the FBI culture
Culture➦
The raising of plants or animals;
The culture of oysters
