"A culture war is a cultural conflict between social groups and the struggle for dominance of their values, beliefs, and practices.[1] It commonly refers to topics on which there is general societal disagreement and polarization in societal values. Its contemporary use refers to a social phenomenon in which multiple social groups, holding distinct values and ideologies, attempt to steer public policy in opposition to each other,[2][3] thus a culture war now describes "hot button" or "polarizing" social issues in politics and public policy.[4] These include wedge issues such as abortion, homosexuality, transgender rights, pornography, multiculturalism, racism, and other cultural conflicts based on values, morality, and lifestyle which are described as the major political cleavage.[4]
The term culture war is a loan translation (calque) of the German Kulturkampf ('culture struggle'). In German, Kulturkampf, a term coined by Rudolf Virchow, refers to the clash between cultural and religious groups in the campaign from 1871 to 1878 under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck of the German Empire against the influence of the Roman Catholic Church.[5] The translation was printed in some American newspapers at the time.[6]"
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