This is an alphabetical version. For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: What Defines A Culture? How To Belong To A Community?
These books try to define a what is a culture. A culture is a community. Books that try to provide guidance on how to belong to a community. And the potential consequences.
What Is Culture:
- Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals that Direct Our Lives by Michele Gelfand
- The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
The Value Of A Community:
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
How To Belong To A Community:
- Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
- On Obligations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The Politics by Aristotle
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
How A Community Changes:
- Buddha by Karen Armstrong
- Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom
Lack Of Community:
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
Consequences Of A Community:
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
- Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
- Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua D. Greene
- Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
- Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
- Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
Types Of Communities:
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
- Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies
- Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland
How Culture Shapes Thought:
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
- How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
