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3.1 Define culture.

Video Link: How Sociologists Define 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:  Why Millennials Hate Voicemail 
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.

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

Video Link: The Main 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: Are Culture Wars Over? 
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: Quick Guide to Culture 
Description: The website defines what culture is and the basic elements of culture. It also explains cultural practices found in all societies.

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

Video Link:  Subculture versus Counterculture 
Description: This video explains the concepts of subculture and counterculture. 

Video Link: The 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 Red and Blue Language Dividing America 
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.

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

Video Link:  Sudanese Immigrants React to American Culture 
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:  How 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 and 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.