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Video Links:

1. Video 4.1: Symbols, Values, and Norms
Description: This video untangles the meanings of symbols, values, and norms in the society.

2. Video 4.2: Cultures, Subcultures, and Countercultures
Description: This video explores the role of cultures in the society.

3. Video 4.3: Sociology Live! McDonaldization
Description: This brief video introduces the four main elements of McDonaldization and explores how McDonaldization impacts our expectations for experiences in other social institutions and cultures.

4. Video 4.4: Americans Try to Guess French Hand Gestures
Description: This video illustrates the cultural differences between French and American culture by exploring hand gestures.

5. Video 4.5: Frontline: Growing Up Trans
Description: This film from PBS explores the experiences of transgender children and their families. It explores the struggles transgender children face in a cis-normative society.

Audio Links:

1. Audio 4.1: NPR Weekend Edition: Confederate monument
Description: In this program, host Melissa Block interviews Dekalb County Commissioner Lorraine Cochran-Johnson about a local confederate monument and the commission’s decision to erect a plaque contextualizing the statue. In the brief discussion, the significance of symbols is explored.

Web Links:

1. Web 4.1: GSS
Description: The General Social Survey (GSS): The GSS is a regular, ongoing omnibus personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center. . . . The first survey took place in 1972, and since then more than 40,000 respondents have answered more than 3,500 different questions. From Americans’ racial attitudes to the number of guns owned by women to musical preferences over a lifetime, the General Social Survey measures the trends in American attitudes, experiences, practices, and concerns [self-characterization].

2. Web 4.2: The Gallup Organization
Description: Gallup Polls: The Gallup Organization is one of the world’s largest management consulting firms. Gallup’s core expertise is in measuring and understanding human attitudes and behavior. . . . Gallup . . . conducts The Gallup Poll, the world’s leading source of public opinion since 1935 [self-characterization].

3. Web 4.3: Roper Polls
Description: Roper Polls: Founded in 1947, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is the leading educational facility in the field of public opinion. The center exists to promote the intelligent, responsible, and imaginative use of public opinion in addressing the problems faced by Americans and citizens of other nations [self-characterization].

4. Web 4.4: Pew Global Attitudes Project
Description: The Pew Global Attitudes Project is a series of worldwide public opinion surveys that encompasses a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day. More than 200,000 interviews in 57 countries have been conducted as part of the project's work [self-characterization].