What's the difference to you between social and cultural?

To me cultural would be more like norms and etiquette of your society
Social would basically include the stuff with the people around you
What’s your contrast between both?

I’m a human geographer (as opposed to a physical geographer, though there’s tons of overlap). In our academic world, “social” has a broader meaning — it includes most anything emerging from contact among human beings (economics, law, politics…). “Cultural” is more restricted. While still embracing a diversity of products of human interaction, it’s focused on the things that make one group (large or small) different from the next — mainly, “superficial” (that is, essentially arbitrary) distinctions like languages, religions, and architectural styles.

I see it the exact opposite of the OP. Cultural is based on specific criteria while social is the the general population.

“Cultural” implies that the whatever-it-is that we’re discussing (values, attitudes, tastes) vary from one culture to another. “Social” includes that but can also mean that whatever-it-is is universal among all known cultures but is nevertheless the way that it is because of it being established as a social norm.

I’m not a professional but I see it JKellyMap’s way. Cultural is a subet of social to me. Social is everything involved in a society, culture being one of those things.

Culture is, in general, the personal manners, art, music, manner of dress and appearance, and other outward customs of superficial behavior that distinguish a group of similar people.

Social = how people interact and relate to each other.

Cultural = the stuff people create and share with each other.

Weird. I was interpreting this very differently: social activities are that subset of cultural activities done in groups. :slight_smile:

Kind of like this. Social is interaction, very dynamic. Cultural is a definition of common practices among people, more an analysis of the society as a whole.

But these are general terms, in a more specific context they are easier to differentiate.