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Audio Resources

Audio Link 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 Link 3.1: 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 Link 3.2: 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 Link 3.3: 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 Link 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 Link 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.