Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In pharmacology, drug effects that increase with repeated administrations, usually due to the buildup of the drug in the body.  

A culture with a high degree of coherence or integration.  

The rich repertoire of rituals, activities, traditions, and social codes that children learn from one another rather than from adults.  

A test designed to reduce or eliminate the influence of different environmental, ethnic, or cultural experiences on test performance.  

Tests designed to be valid for persons from different cultural groups, cultural fairness of a test.  

Culture traits or patterns that combine to achieve a goal.  

The tendency to think that the customs prevailing in one’s own culture are the natural and usually superior way of doing things.  

Interacting with the community establishes roots in the community and provides a person with a sense of belonging.  

Widely held beliefs or sentiment that some activities, relationships, feelings, or goals are important to the community’s identity or well-being.  

One of the forms of the sociological theories of alcoholism. Specifically, it is thought that as ingestion of alcohol reduces anxiety and tension produced by a society, it is proposed that cultural factors that create these tensions may be responsible for the development of alcoholism.