General
“Your Brain on Culture” from American Psychological Association
 http://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/11/neuroscience.aspx
“Five Examples of How the Languages We Speak Affect the Way We Think” from TED
 http://blog.ted.com/2013/02/19/5-examples-of-how-the-languages-we-speak-can-affectthe-way-we-think/
Social Media Culture
“Has social media changed the way we speak and write” from English Town
 http://www.englishtown.com/blog/has-social-media-changed-the-way-we-speak-andwrite-english/
“Don’t Fear the Network: The Internet is Changing the Way We Communicate for the Better” from
Pacific Standard
 http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/networks-changed-socialmedia-internet-communication-82554/
“I Knew You Before I Met You” from Faculty Voice, the University of Maryland
 http://imerrill.umd.edu/facultyvoice1/?p=3171
“Five Ways Facebook Changed Us: For Better, For Worse” from CNN Tech
 http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/31/tech/social-media/facebook-changes/
Advertisement/Consumerism Culture
“Driving Teen Egos- and Buying- through ‘Branding’” from American Psychological Association
 http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun04/driving.aspx
“The End of Cosumerism?” from The Guardian
 http://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/jun/14/collaborative-consumption
“Environmental Ills? It’s Consumerism, Stupid” from Scientific American
 http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/01/22/environmental-ills-itsconsumerism-stupid/
Social Status/Class Culture (lower, middle and upper class)
“21 Ways Rich People Think Differently” from Business Insider
 http://www.businessinsider.com/how-rich-people-think-differently-from-the-poor-2012-
8?op=1
“Culture of Poverty in America” from Huffington Post
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linetta-j-gilbert/poverty-in-america_b_1420812.html
“Facing Social Class” from Russel Sage Foundation (book summary)
 https://www.russellsage.org/publications/facing-social-class
Facing Social Class from the book, chapter one
 https://www.russellsage.org/sites/all/files/Fiske_Markus_chap1.pdf
“We are not all Created Equal” from Esquire (has some profanity, but low-level)
 http://www.esquire.com/features/thousand-words-on-culture/american-class-system-0112

Educational Culture
“Struggle for Smarts: How Eastern and Western Cultures Tackle Learning”
 http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/11/12/164793058/struggle-for-smarts-how-easternand-western-cultures-tackle-learning
“Hack Schooling Makes me Happy” from TED
 http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/01/07/this-is-what-happens-when-a-kid-leavestraditional-education/
“Does Education Kill Creativity” from TED
 http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/01/07/this-is-what-happens-when-a-kid-leavestraditional-education/
“Campus Culture or Climate” from New York Times
 http://www.nytimes.com/ref/college/collegespecial2/coll_aascu_ecculture.html
“College Culture” from Galivan College
 http://hhh.gavilan.edu/lhalper/hist1/collegeculture.htm