{
  "id": "culture.social",
  "term": "culture",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 22,
  "arena": "culture",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a common set of knowledge, practice, art, language and sign is among people and persists in a space through time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "knowledge.cognitive",
      "practice.skill",
      "art.creative",
      "language.communication",
      "sign.symbolic",
      "people.social",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "the common knowledge, practice, art, language and sign are among people and persist in a space through time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared meaning",
      "group identity",
      "collective tradition"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The oral transmission of the Iliad across 500 years in ancient Greek villages preserved Homeric dialect and heroic ethos.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The continuous practice of tea ceremony in Kyoto’s Urasenke school since the 16th century maintains choreography, utensils, and seasonal rituals.",
      "domain": "culture"
    },
    {
      "text": "Linux kernel development since 1991 sustains shared coding norms, version control practices, and contributor hierarchies across global servers.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "social.relational",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "ahead-of-its-time.premature"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "culture",
    "cultures"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-culture.social"
}