Curated Video
Cultures, Subcultures, and Countercultures: Crash Course Sociology
What is culture? How do we define it and how does it change? We’ll explore different categories of culture, like low culture, high culture, and sub-cultures. We'll also revisit our founding theories to consider both a structural...
Curated Video
Race, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Landscape: Crash Course Geography
Sometimes culture can seem invisible like when we're surrounded by signals that tell us we're with others who are like us, but if we live or travel somewhere where the traits that define social norms are not our traits, culture can...
Curated Video
Are Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
Here on the internet, we love us some memes. But where do they come from? Yes we know, they are user generated. But to an internet layman, they seem to just appear, in HUGE quantities, ready for cultural consumption. Are they a sign of a...
Curated Video
Japan in the Heian Period and Cultural History: Crash Course World History 227
In which John Green teaches you about what westerners call the middle ages and the lives of the aristocracy...in Japan. The Heian period in Japan lasted from 794CE to 1185CE, and it was an interesting time in Japan. Rather than being...
TED Talks
TED: Let's reframe cancel culture | Sarah Jones
Cancel culture launched a reckoning that was long overdue — but that doesn't mean it's getting everything right. Filmmaker and actor Sarah Jones slips in and out of various characters as she shares her personal experience with cancel...
TED Talks
Wade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures
With stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, which are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate.
Curated Video
National Culture within an Organization: Geert Hofstede's 6 Cultural Dimensions
New ReviewIn his book, Culture’s Consequences, Dutch cultural psychologist Geert Hofstede, brought the term Organizational Culture into common use. His original work at IBM identified 4 dimensions of national culture. Later, he extended this to 6...
Wonderscape
Social Studies Kids: Cultural Diversity
This video explores the importance of cultural diversity and multiculturalism. It discusses the definition of culture, the benefits of embracing diverse perspectives, and the barriers to multiculturalism. It also provides suggestions for...
Curated Video
Understanding Corporate Culture in Business
The video explains the concept of corporate culture within a business and how it shapes every aspect of the company, including the mission objective, staff behavior, leadership attitudes, and human resources. The video then discusses the...
Mister Simplify
Handy's Organisational Culture Model - Simplest Explanation Ever
Charles Handy's Model is a way to categorise organisational cultures. Understanding organisational cultures goes a long way in ensuring employee satisfaction and motivation in business today.
The Business Professor
8 Types of Organizational Culture
What are the 8 Types of Organizational Culture? Adhocracy Culture, Clan Culture, Customer-Focused Culture, Hierarchy Culture, Market-Driven Culture, Purpose-Driven Culture, Innovative Culture, Creative Culture.
Curated Video
What are Edgar Schein's Two Organizational Cultures?
New ReviewIn this video, we look at two opposed cultures that Schein defined, to give us our first, and simplest, introduction to the many different organizational models available. Schein's two organizational cultures have either an authority...
Curated Video
Edgar Schein's 3 Levels of Organizational Culture
New ReviewEdgar Schein, of the Sloan School of Management, was interested in understanding organizational culture. He analyzed organizations into three distinct levels of organizational culture: artifacts (the surface manifestations of culture),...
Curated Video
How we Work: Geert Hofstede's 6 Cross-Organization Cultural Dimensions
New ReviewIn the 1980s, the Dutch cultural psychologist Geert Hofstede returned to the study of culture, but focused on an analysis of organizational practices. The authors identified six cross-organizational dimensions that separate and define...
Seven Dimensions
Cultural Sensitivity and Global Business Etiquette
This video is an informative guide on cultural sensitivity in a global workplace. It highlights the importance of understanding and respecting different cultures, customs, and traditions to avoid offending others. The video offers...
The Business Professor
Cultural Relativism
What is Cultural Relativism? Cultural relativism is the idea that a person's beliefs and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture. Proponents of cultural relativism also tend to argue that the norms and values of...
Curated Video
Developing Cross-Cultural Awareness: The Stages
New ReviewWhat is the process for creating deep cross-cultural awareness and moving towards leading cross-cultural teams effectively?
Curated Video
Edgar Schein: The Master of Organizational Culture
New ReviewEdgar Schein is a social psychologist who has introduced many ideas around organizations and organizational culture. His thinking is at the heart of the subject.
Curated Video
Introduction to Organizational Culture
New ReviewOrganizational Culture sits in the background of an organization: Collective patterns of behavior: its habits and rituals. It’s like the organization’s personality.
Curated Video
What is the Cultural Web? Johnson & Scholes on Where Culture Originates
New ReviewThe Cultural Web of an organization is a model developed by Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scholes.
SocMedia Films
Culture v2
An introduction to Material Culture, Nonmaterial Culture, Culture lag, Sociobiology.
Curated Video
Tissue Culture: Growing Identical Cells for Plant Breeding and Medical Research
This is a video that explains the concept of tissue culture, which is a technique used to grow cells or tissues in a liquid or solid medium that contains nutrients. The video describes the process of tissue culture, as well as the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bruno della Chiesa - Learning for Better Cultural Understanding
A former diplomat and science fiction editor, among other more exotic jobs, Bruno della Chiesa is a linguist trained at the Universities of Bonn and Paris Sorbonne, where he earned a D.E.a. in 1989. After France (60s-70s) and Germany...
Curated Video
10 Cultural Differences Between UK & Germany | Easy English 76
10 Cultural Differences Between UK & Germany | Easy English 76 Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of...