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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| What Is Culture? What Is Culture to You? | |
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| Planned Pause 1-1 What I Think of When I Hear the Word "Culture" | |
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| Do We Inherit Culture? What Role Does Biology Play, if Any? | |
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| Rediscovering Culture for the Very First Time | |
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| Taking Stock: What Have You Learned So Far? | |
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| Planned Pause 1-2 How I View "Culture" Now | |
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| We Weren't Born to Be Random: Culture as Comfort | |
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| Seeing Culture through a Different Lens | |
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| Planned Pause 2-1 Checking In with My Cultural Discomforts | |
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| Seeing Culture through an Infant's Eyes | |
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| From Newborn Novice to Trained Toddler: Acquiring Cultural Comfort | |
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| Constructing the Puzzle of How Babies Learn Culture | |
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| Brain Activity: Converting the New into the Known | |
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| Learning Culture Is Not Memorization: Culture Is Creative but also Orderly | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Planned Pause 2-2 Applying Culture as Comfort to Real Life | |
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| Culture as Comfort Is the Way Our Brains Develop Too | |
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| Planned Pause 3-1 "The Ways I Do My Social Status" | |
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| Building Our Brains' Cultural Circuitry | |
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| Cutting Pathways through the (Brain's) Forest of Experience | |
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| Planned Pause 3-2 My Cultural Ruts-and How to Break Out of Them | |
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| From Life's Routines to Norms to Normal: Culture, Tradition, and Institutionalization | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| To Be Human Is to Integrate Socially | |
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| Learning Culture is About Socially Integrating New People into Groups | |
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| Integrating People into Families | |
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| Integrating People into (Face-to-Face) Institutional Groups | |
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| Becoming Soldiers in Real Life and Online | |
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| Integrating into Schools, Universities and Jobs as Cultural Contexts | |
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| Beyond Face-to-Face: Integrating into Imagined Communities | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Planned Pause 4-1 Helping Bridge Cultural Discomforts | |
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| Encountering "Others" | |
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| How Social Distinctions Arise | |
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| The Internal Lines that Divide All Human Groups | |
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| From Social Category to Categorically Unequal | |
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| Gender | |
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| Planned Pause 5-1 Doing Gender in My Society | |
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| Race | |
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| Learning Social Statuses | |
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| Ethnographies of Learning Race | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Planned Pause 5-2 My Ideas for Raising Children to Create a Better Future for All | |
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| Doing Culture More Mindfully | |
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| Culture as Comfort's Main Points | |
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| Revealing and Analyzing Your Cultural Comforts | |
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| Planned Pause 6-1 Analyzing My Cultural Comforts | |
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| Focusing on the Immigrant Experience | |
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| Embracing Your Cultural Discomforts | |
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| Applying Culture as Comfort | |
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| Planned Pause 6-2 "How I Will Expand My Cultural Comforts" | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |