After finishing this chapter, you should be able to:

• Define culture and social identity.
• Provide examples of how culture and social identities work across and within borders, i.e., from the outside-in and from the inside-out.
• Describe the social identities that matter for international studies.
• Articulate contrasting perspectives on culture and social identity.
• Explain how global forces shape culture and social identities, and create tensions that are manifest in culture and social identities.