### social society | culture:

Monoculture
* are also weak, subject to insect blights, diseases, and bad weather
  - anathema to biodiversity
  - easier to harvest, but more vulnerable to diseases and pests than mixed crops
  - fields with only one crop
  - inherently prone to the rapid spread of pathogens
  - notoriously vulnerable to weather events and to insect blights
* are, after all, more susceptible to being wiped out by disease than mixed fields.
* breeds parasites A contribution to the diversity of life on the Net.
* increases the susceptibility of crops to pests and disease.
* invite pests, disease, and the potential for failure on a large scale.
* involves planting one variety of a species over a huge area.
* is anti-sex
  - inherently unstable whether it be plant, animal or fungus
* is the continuous production of one type of crop that is often genetically uniform
  - destruction of a diverse ecosystem and replacement with a single species system
* lend themselves to mechanization and industrialization.
* prime cause of rust outbreaks.

Native culture
* Most native culture uses childbirth
  - cultures reflect time as a repeated cycle
* Some native culture uses llama wool
* Some native cultures are more open-minded about homosexuality
  - believe obsidian sharpens inner and outer vision

Nigerian culture
* encourages conformity, deference and respect for elders, teachers, and leaders.
* includes many myths, rituals, and herbal uses to regulate women's fertility.

Oral culture
* Many oral cultures wonder if the winds are moving our thoughts.
* act and react at the same time.
* tend to scaffold connectivity.

Oriental culture
* Many oriental cultures love depicting nature, and they paint nature on silk.
* Some Oriental cultures eat rice instead of bread.

Pop culture
* can do that to a person.
* involves a shift in attitudes towards the object.
* is an important part of the history of a time period
  - created by people to reflect their inner thoughts and emotions
  - our most dominant source of ideology today
  - therefore part of an economic process which is likely to go on developing
  - youth culture
* metaphor for moral issues.
* requires itself as a lens to our vision and our voice.

### social society | culture:

Popular culture
* can often help to guide scientific studies
  - play a critical role in giving young people the confidence to reject drugs
* creates order out of chaos.
* far more accurate portrayal of a society than highbrow culture.
* has a recurrent fascination with doomsday pathogens.
* includes everything from comic books, to movies, to advertising.
* inhabits all of our lives in one form or another.
* involves mass media.
* is also important and is enjoyed by millions
  - enslaved by desire for pleasure, profit, and praise
  - in love with the idea of free prizes, free money, and free stuff
  - inclined toward superlatives and celebrity
  - many times synonymous with American culture
  - often irreverent, sometimes deviant
  - produced under conditions of subordination
  - stuff that people really like now
* is the art of making do with what the system provides
  - result of human communicative activity, primarily via the mass media
  - sum of ideas, activities, and fads that have been or are part of our lives
* loves box office, and box office loves celebrity, especially celebrity in trouble.
* portrays science as being beyond the understanding of the non-specialist.
* powerful tool for reaching the masses and tackling deeply-rooted social issues.
* refers to a fashionable trend in society, whether in the past or present.
* reinforces the sense of pessimism, even doom about the chances for marital success.
* rich field of study, drawing in researchers from a variety of disciplines.
* romanticizes poverty's desperate life.
* seems to encourage premarital sex, but most religions find it to be immoral.
* wants to view law as the overarching principles of a just and harmonious society.