Class Description:    

     This course focuses on the STUDY OF CULTURE -- what it is; how it operates; and how and why cultures around the world have similarities and differences in their customs, behaviors, beliefs, forms of organization, and artifacts.  The goal of this class is to expand our view of what it means to be "human" to include the full global, international range of customs, behaviors and beliefs of people all around the world that we live in.  To do this, we study cultural patterns and processes using comparative examples from different societies around the world.

Textbook for Dr. LaLone's Fall 2009 SOCY 121 classes:

·         Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective, new 8TH edition, by Gary Ferraro & Susan Andreatta, published by Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, student copy ISBN is 978-0-495-60192-0.  (Note: be sure to buy the new 8th Edition!)
You will need it the first week of school.

 

Author: Mary B. LaLone, mlalone@radford.edu 
Radford University
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