Culture

Culture is a generalized term used in Sophontology to encompass a wide range of societal and civilizational folkways governing attitudes towards life and specific lifestyles.

Description (Specifications)

Culture includes a very great number of characteristics including:

• Art
• Customs
• Folkways
• Governance
• Interstellar relations
• Language
• Social hierarchy
• Traditions

Many of these characteristics are considered to be cultural universals that apply to the greater body of sophont species.

History & Background (Dossier)

Culture is, in one regard, an important sociological technology that helps sophonts cooperate with each other to gain mastery over other creatures and their environment.

See also

Artistic Practices

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• Culture
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Clothing
  • Cuisine
  • Cultural More
  • Cultural Universal
  • Custom
  • Etiquette
  • Folkway
  • Language
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Religion
  • Tradition

Cultural Sociology

• Civilization
• Government
• Polity
• Society

Cultural Extension

• Homogeneity
• Acceptance
• Strangeness
• Symbols

Cultural Mores

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• Cultural Mores
  • Aeonic Stability
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Big Nine
  • Chimera Species
  • Cloning
  • Computer
  • Cultural Affinity
  • Eugenics
  • First Contact
  • Gentlesophonce
  • Martial Arts
  • Megastructure
  • Metempsychosis
  • Panet Relationship
  • Relict Regeneration
  • Robotics
  • Six Races
  • Slavery
  • Synthetics
  • Traveller Gene
  • Uplift
  • Winkle

Sophont

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• Native Intelligent Life
• Sophont
  • Human Race
    • Humanoid
    • Non-humanoid
    • Semi-humanoid
  • Humaniti
    • Major Human Race
    • Minor Human Race
  • Major Race
    • Major Human Race
    • Major Non-Human Race
  • Minor Race
    • Minor Human Race
    • Minor Non-Human Race
  • Non-human Race
    • Major Non-Human Race
    • Minor Non-Human Race
  • Variant Race
    • Chimera Species
    • Human Chimera
    • Genetic Engineering
    • Variant Human Race
    • Variant Non-Human Race
  • Ancients
  • Ascendants
  • Extinct Species
  • Precursors
  • Primordials
  • Transcendents

Sophontology

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• Sophontology
  • Civilization
  • Culture
  • Extilligence
  • First Contact
  • Found Tool
  • Government
  • Hosking Rating
  • Intelligence
  • Language
  • Native Intelligent Life
  • Polity
  • Proto-Sophont
  • Sapient
  • Sentient
  • Society
  • Sophontologist
  • Technology

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• The Travellers' Digest 16 Aspects of Culture by Nancy Parker #16 pg 46-48
• EXTERNAL LINK: Jottings. Beginning in 2016, I made a few mailing list postings on various topics relevant to building cultures. at Freelance Traveller by Jeff Zeitlin
• EXTERNAL LINK: Building a Culture at Freelance Traveller by Jeff Zeitlin
• EXTERNAL LINK: Science Fiction and Monocultures at Freelance Traveller by Ed Ortiz
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science