Smithsonian Honors Sting, LA TIMES
Orange County’s Instagram Food Culture Is Eating Itself Alive, Los Angeles Eater, 9/11/2017
Hip Hop Planet : National Geographic Magazine, 2007
Teen Pregnancy Rates and the “Culture of Despair”, big think, no date
Multicultural Festival, The Laconia Daily Sun, 09/6/17
Which notion of culture you have read about (in preparation for week 2) comes closest to the understanding of culture expressed in the article? What are the differences highlighted by its use? Given the topic discussed in the article you have chosen, what are other notions of culture that could further contribute to an understanding of the phenomenon at hand? What evidence from the writing supports your answers?
Does a ‘culturalist’ perspective in your view foster social inclusion or could it, instead, promote social exclusion because of a problematic overemphasis of individual differences?
