Social norms are invisible instructions
Norms are shared expectations about behaviour that people often follow without a written rule.
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Daily Culture & Society learning cards
Ideas that shape how we live. Explore a short explanation, an everyday example and a question you can answer from memory.
The Culture & Society collection currently has 8 written cards. The daily app introduces written ideas and revisits earlier cards once the collection is complete. Source previews offer additional reading.
Familiar is not automatically universal
Ethnocentrism judges another culture mainly by one's own cultural standards.
Understanding starts with local meaning
Cultural relativism examines practices within their cultural context.
Objects carry shared meanings
Material culture includes the physical objects people create and use.
Values and norms play different roles
Values express what a group considers important; norms guide behaviour.
One society contains many cultural worlds
A subculture shares distinctive practices within a larger society.
Ideas travel and change
Cultural diffusion is the spread of practices, objects or ideas between groups.
Repeated actions can express belonging
Rituals are patterned actions with shared symbolic meaning.