Audio Resources

Audio 3.1: And So We Meet, Again: Why the Workday Is So Filled with Meetings
Description: Are work meetings a waste of time? NPR takes a look at the efficacy of office culture.
Learning Objective: 3.3: Provide examples of microcultures, subcultures, countercultures, and global cultures.

Video Resources

Video 3.1: Power of Technology
Description: Jamesurowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube video, blogs, IMs and txts carried the news—and preserved moving personal stories from the tragedy.
Learning Objective: 3.1: Describe the structure (the “hardware”) of our social world.

Video 3.2: Dumbing Down the Smart City
Description: Does the smart city concept put technology ahead of people, ignoring the very things that make us human? Adam Greenfield, Senior Urban Fellow in LSE Cities, discusses the growing public skepticism around claims that intelligent operating systems and data analytics are the key to our future.
Learning Objective: 3.1: Describe the structure (the “hardware”) of our social world.

Video 3.3: Cyber-Savvy Generation
Description: FRONTLINE peers inside the world of a cyber-savvy generation through the eyes of teens and their parents, who often find themselves on opposite sides of a new digital divide.
Learning Objective: 3.1: Describe the structure (the “hardware”) of our social world.

Video 3.4: Cultural Diversity
Description: With stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world’s indigenous cultures, which are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate.
Learning Objective: 3.2: Illustrate how culture affects individuals, groups, and societies.

Video 3.5: Amish Culture
Description: Amish teenagers go through a period of their lives in which they have to decide whether they are going to stay in the community or not, testing their religious beliefs.
Learning Objective: 3.3: Provide examples of microcultures, subcultures, countercultures, and global cultures.

Web Resources

Web 3.1: The Culture of Inequality
Description: This webpage includes a discussion of the culture of inequality that we have created in the U.S. Inequality is the cornerstone of conflict theory.
Learning Objective: 3.2: Illustrate how culture affects individuals, groups, and societies.

Web 3.2: Positive News and Positive Change
Description: This article from Contexts Magazine focuses on the lack of news articles that discuss positive changes that have occurred in recent years and the reasons behind why this is so.
Learning Objective: 3.2: Illustrate how culture affects individuals, groups, and societies.