Culture war

For the "culture war" between the Catholic Church and the German state in the 1870s, see Kulturkampf.
"Culture Wars" redirects here. For the book, see Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America.

A culture war is a form of cultural conflict (metaphorical "war") between different social groups who struggle to politically impose their own ideology (moral beliefs, humane virtues, religious practices) upon mainstream society,[1][2] or upon the other.

In political usage, the term culture war is a metaphor for "hot-button" politics about values and ideologies, realized with intentionally adversarial social narratives meant to provoke political polarization among the mainstream of society over economic matters of[3][4] public policy[5] and of consumption.[1]

As practical politics, a culture war is about social policy wedge issues that are based on abstract arguments about values, morality, and lifestyle meant to provoke political cleavage in a multicultural society.[2]

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  2. ^ a b Koleva, Spassena P.; Graham, Jesse; Iyer, Ravi; Ditto, Peter H.; Haidt, Jonathan (April 1, 2012). "Tracing the threads: How five moral concerns (especially Purity) help explain culture war attitudes". Journal of Research in Personality. 46 (2): 184–194. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2012.01.006. ISSN 0092-6566. S2CID 6786293.
  3. ^ Saleem, Saleena Begum (July 18, 2023). Trust in Polarised Plural Societies: Intersections Across the Ideological Divides of Women's Groups in Malaysia (dphil thesis). University of Liverpool. Archived from the original on November 5, 2023. Retrieved October 23, 2023.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Andrew Hartman 2015 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Culture Wars". Encyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved October 21, 2019.