1. rheumatology-the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of pathologies of the muscles or tendons or joints. medical specialty, medicine-the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques.
This multiculturalism, or diverse cultural environment, is why America is commonly referred to as a 'melting pot'. The American political culture is based on the important principle that America welcomes and celebrates people from many different countries, races and religions.
The culture of poverty also emerges as a key concept in Michael Harrington 's discussion of American poverty in The Other America (1962). For Harrington, the culture of poverty is a structural concept defined by social institutions of exclusion which create and perpetuate the cycle of poverty in America.eople with a culture of poverty have very little sense of history. They are a marginal people who know only their own troubles, their own local conditions, their own neighborhood, their own way of life.