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| What is Culture? | ||
| This website provides a good overview of culture, including definitions and a glossary. You can access summaries and discussion on some of the more influential cultural theorists and their work, such as Clifford Geertz's Interpretation of Culture, and Raymond Williams's Ordinary Culture. ( http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-index.html ) | ||
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| Body Ritual Among the Nacerima | ||
| This website provides the influential article "Body Ritual Among the Nacerima" written by Horace Miner in 1956. It provides a provocative way to learn about the concept of ethnocentrism. ( http://www.stanford.edu/~davidf/nacirema.html ) | ||
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| Student Life and Culture | ||
| Learn about subcultures by exploring student life. Links connect to a wide variety of websites that offer advice and explanations of the norms and values associated with student life. Advice about socialization and norms covers a wide range of behaviors, from the very serious to the seriously recreational. ( http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Higher_Education/Student_Life/ ) | ||
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| International Students Coping with Culture Shock | ||
| This website is provided by the counseling center at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. It discusses the symptoms of culture shock and how international students can deal with the cultural differences they experience in American society. ( http://www.uwec.edu/counsel/pubs/shock.htm ) | ||
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| Cultural Relativity Resources | ||
| This website includes information on regional cultures, including Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. You can also access links on cultural superstructure, like demography and geography, and cultural social structure, such as foods of the world and global holidays. ( http://www.pc.maricopa.edu/departments/library/guides/cultural.html ) | ||
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| World Café Future Culture | ||
| The World Café is a one-stop resource for creating community dialogues on issues that matter. The site reviews how to do it, who is doing it, and why it matters that people are doing it. ( http://www.theworldcafe.com/resources.html ) | ||
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| Research: Value of Groups | ||
| Presentation of the paper "Why So Social An Animal? The Utility of Interdependence." This paper provides an overview of group membership, self-esteem, and the function of groups, with links to further explanations of these concepts. ( http://www.vcu.edu/hasweb/psy/faculty/fors/rgroup.html#group ) | ||
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| Peace Corps Culture Matters Workbook | ||
| This website offers a guide to understanding cross-cultural issues and perspectives. Chapters address topics such as styles of communication, social relationships, understanding culture, culture in the workplace, and adjusting to a new culture. ( http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm ) | ||
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| Webster's World of Cultural Policy | ||
| Webster's World of Cultural Policy defines itself as an online guide to how social groups make decisions based upon "cultural policy" - those values and principles that guide any social entity in the realm of cultural affairs. ( http://www.wwcd.org/policy/policy.html ) | ||
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| American Slanguage | ||
| This is a lighthearted guide to slang and language idiosyncrasies throughout the United States. This site also links to an international slanguage site. ( http://www.slanguage.com/ ) | ||
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| Sara Zupko's Cultural Studies Center | ||
| A wide-ranging guide to popular culture, this site provides links to international references, theorists, papers, conferences, reading lists, and publisher information. Sociological terms used in articles are hyperlinked to definitions. ( http://www.popcultures.com ) | ||
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| The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies | ||
| The Max Planck Institute focuses on "the conditions under which modern societies may be able to solve problems through collective action." Current research includes such topics as analyses of multilevel problem solving; science, technology, and innovation; and research methods. ( http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de ) | ||
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| SocioSite: Networks, Groups, and Social Interaction | ||
| This site is a collection of links to research centers, researchers, and papers on social networks, groups, group behavior, social interaction, and social psychology. ( http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/TOPICS/interaction.html ) | ||
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