What did you notice about the language in the setting? Are there any particular words, terms, mottos, or sayings that are commonly used among members? What else did you notice about talk and interaction in the setting?

CR2: Culture

• What aspects of material culture did you notice in “the setting”? This can include physical surroundings, architecture, equipment, clothing, artwork, food, or other objects. Can you explain the meaning, function, or purpose of particular items of material culture?

• What did you notice about the language in the setting? Are there any particular words, terms, mottos, or sayings that are commonly used among members? What else did you notice about talk and interaction in the setting? Were there any signs or other written materials associated with the setting?

• What aspects of symbolic culture are part of this subculture? Describe values that members of the group uphold, listing at least three values that are key to the group’s culture. What are the group’s ideas, beliefs, or attitudes? Does the group have a mission?

• What kinds of social norms guide the behavior of individuals, and how are these norms relate to group values? What are the folkways of the group? How do these folkways shape what members do or say? What are some of the rules governing members? Why are they important?

• Are any rituals, celebrations, or observations, that are important to this group? What do these events teach us about subculture values?

• What did you observe in the setting that seemed especially familiar or unfamiliar to you? Was there anything that surprised you? What insights were you able to gain by suspending ethnocentrism and practicing cultural relativism?

• How do your subculture’s practices map against dominant cultural expectations?