Honor culture ideals, which focus on kinship, reputation and masculinity, are linked to how people name their babies, new research finds.

Yet we’re now seeing honor culture return to cultural spaces that had once been colonized by meritocracy. Why Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars is beside the point.

In “The Rise of Victimhood Culture,” I described the work of sociologists Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning, who argued that the United States made the transition from an honor culture to a ...

James Bowman talked about his book [Honor: A History], published by Encounter Books. He analyzed the history and decline of honor in the West, arguing that the concept of honor has been found in ...

May 06, 2006 Moussaoui: The 'Honor Culture' Versus Honor By Thomas Bray "America, you lost. I won." Coming at a time when the world press assumes that America is losing in Iraq, Osama bin Laden is ...

The study also found that in “honor states,” boys were more likely to get recycled names after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 -- a possible reflection of the way threats are taken in ...