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4.1 Define culture.

Video Link: Sociology class lecture Culture

Description: The video defines culture and explains its integral components such as beliefs, values, behavior and material objects that together shape how people experience the world around them.

Audio Link: Please Do Not Leave a Message: Why Millennials Hate Voice Mail

Description: The podcast explains how new trends in technology, such as email and texting, are experienced differently by millennials and have affected mainstream culture. For example, it used to be common to leave voice messages on a phone; today this practice is less common.

Web Resource: What Is Culture

Description: Defines culture, explains material and non-material cultural characteristics, and how culture affects individuals and society.

 

4.2 Identify the basic elements of culture, including values and norms.

Video Link: Elements of Culture

Description: The video describes the main components of culture such as norms, sanctions, values, and the role of language from a sociological point of view.

Audio Link: Turf Shifts In Culture Wars As Support For Gay Marriage Rises

Description: This podcast discusses how public opinion may influence social norms. It also explains that the way political parties choose to respond to social issues is based on furthering their agenda.

Web Resource: Culture

Description: The website defines what culture is and the basic elements of culture. It also explains cultural practices found in all societies.

 

4.3 Discuss diversity within cultures, including the concepts of ideal and real culture, subcultures and countercultures, culture wars, and assimilation.

Video Link: Subculture vs Counterculture

Description: This video explains the concepts of subculture and counterculture.

Video Link: Real and Ideal Culture

Description: The video defines the concepts of ideal culture and real culture and explores the differences between the two.

Audio Link: The Language That Divides America: From Red And Blue To Percents

Description: The audio illustrates how cultural divides can be observed through language.

Web Resource: The American tradition of multiculturalism

Description: The article defines the American tradition of multiculturalism and explains the many forms of multiculturalism found in the United States.

 

4.4 Describe emerging issues in culture, such as global and consumer culture.

Video Link: Cultural Differences National Geographic

Description: The video depicts students from Sudan who moved to Pittsburgh to start a new life. It highlights the cultural differences they experienced, such as food, social interactions, values, and norms.

Audio Link: Internet Sales Threaten Shopping Mall Culture

Description: The podcast discusses how cars have affected American lives and culture, including when and where people shopped. The Internet has reshaped American consumer culture in a similar fashion. The students discuss the cultural differences they experienced. How does cultural relativism play a role between Sudan and the United States?

Web Resource: Instacart’s Bet on Online Grocery Shopping

Description: The article discusses how rapid technological innovations, such as smartphones, have changed American consumer culture, including even how Americans shop for groceries.