Your author makes a point of noting the distinction between "ideal" culture -- the beliefs, norms, and values that members in a society like to tell themselves, and others, they have -- and the same society's "real" culture -- the way people actually tend to behave in interaction. A good example is the conduct of drivers on the expressway. Ideally "we are all law-abiding residents," but the actual 'rules' for how to get along with other drivers are very different from the official standard that is codified in law. What do you make of this difference between ideal and reality? Does it suggest that "culture" has no power to influence behavior? Or that there are simply "other considerations" over and above the official standard? Let me know what you think.
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