Course examines the sociological and anthropological interrelationship among society, culture, and education in various national and local settings. Focusing on pluralistic communities—namely, the tension between universalism, relativism, and multiculturalism, and issues of ‘race,’ gender/sexual orientation, ethnicity/linguistic group affiliations—the course will explore how culture and social relations influence behavior, personality, norms, and values, as well as how these shape relationships between individuals, groups and institutions within and across societies.