National Statistics Center

Culture

It means a variety collection of religious, material, intellectual, and religious peculiarities that characterize a particular community or group. It does not include art and literature only, but also patterns of life, ways of coexistence, value systems, traditions, and beliefs.

Cultural activities

Activities that embody or convey forms of cultural expression, regardless of their commercial value. Cultural activities may be a purpose in themselves, or they may contribute to cultural goods and services.

Cultural Diversity

Cultural diversity refers to the multiplicity of forms through which groups and societies express their cultures. Cultural expressions are passed on within groups and societies among themselves and from one generation to the next. Cultural diversity is evident through the diversity of expressing, enriching, and transmitting cultural heritage and the diversity of patterns of creativity, production, dissemination, distribution, and enjoyment of artistic expressions, whatever the means and technologies used in this.

Cultural industries

It means industries that produce and distribute cultural goods or services, as previously defined. Cultural landscapes: They are joint works of nature and man, expressing a long and close relationship between people and the surrounding natural environment.

Cultural participation

It is the participation in the arts and daily activities that can be linked to a specific culture. This phrase refers to "how ethnic differences express tastes, values, and cultural patterns of behavior that have no technical and media advantage, as well as those differences that include differences in various aspects of daily life and different styles of life." This phrase also means “how the differences mentioned above are related to other related social characteristics, such as grade and gender.

Cultural goods

It means consumer goods that convey ideas, symbols, and lifestyles, such as books, magazines, multimedia products, computer programs, recordings, films, videotapes, audiovisual programs, crafts, and fashion.

Cultural services

They are services aimed at meeting cultural interests or needs. These services do not represent tangible cultural goods per se but rather facilitate their production and distribution. Cultural services include, for example, licensing activities, other services related to copyright, activities for the distribution of audiovisual goods, promotion of performing arts and cultural events, as well as services related to cultural information, preservation of books, recordings, and craft industries (in libraries, documentation centers, Museums).

Cultural integration

A social phenomenon saves the cultural system and retains its character or continues close to this character when changes or innovations occur. This is when new habits or beliefs are to be introduced, as the system remains, in general, preserving its character. This can be done through choosing habits, beliefs, or models that fit its character, or by changing the form or function of borrowed models so that they become compatible with its models, which changes the system in its models in line with the new models so that it remains generally conservative. Some have argued that culture is a coherent pattern of thought and action. Cultural integration brings harmony between thought and action to achieve the goals, objectives, and purposes of the community in which the culture resides.

Cultural change

A process that is larger and broader than the process of social change. As cultural change includes every development or transformation that takes place in an era of culture, whether it is in art, science, industry, philosophy, language, or literature, and it also includes, above all, all changes that occur in the forms and rules of the social system.

Cultural course

A phrase that refers to the cultural production comes from a series of interconnected processes or stages, which constitute the cultural cycle, the series of activities adding cultural value, or the cultural field's supply chain.

Natural and cultural heritage

Museum

It is a permanent, non-profit institution open to the public, aimed at the community's service and development. The museum collects, preserves, researches, communicates, and displays human heritage and development, education, study, and entertainment, as defined by the World Council of Museums. There are dozens of thousands of museums worldwide interested in collecting objects that have scientific, artistic, or historical value and make them available to the public through exhibitions that may be permanent or temporary. Museums are designated for researchers in the historical, literary, and artistic fields, and they stand as a living testament to what civilization has reached.