Introduction to Sociology - Online
Reading Assignments, Lecture Notes, Videos & Web Sites

Unit 4: The Study of Culture

Macionis, Society: The Basics, chapter 2

Horace Miner, “Body Ritual among the Nacirema”

Karen Musalo, "When Rights and Culture Collide."

Christopher Petrella, "The Ugly History of the Pledge of Allegiance - and Why it Matters," The Washington Post, November 3, 2017

"Views of US Moral Values Slip to Seven-Year Lows," Gallup Poll, Politics, May 22, 2017

"Moral Issues, 2002 - 2017," Gallup Poll

Karen Sternheimer, “Our Subcultures: Making the Familiar Strange,” Everyday Sociology, March 4, 2016

Listen to David Sedaris' humorous "Six to Eight Black Men" as an example of ethnocentrism and cultural relativity

Watch this short video on "cultural diversity" in New York City - and visit Humans of New York.

Watch this video on "Datings's Do's and Don'ts" from 1949.