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Culture Research

This guide offers a starting point in conducting research related to culture.

Finding Books & eBooks

Search Suggestions

You could try the using the following search terms in the Bentley Library Search as well as in our eBook collections in order to find relevant books:

  • Culture
  • Popular Culture
  • Cross-Cultural Studies
  • Social Aspects
  • Customs
  • Social life and customs
  • National characteristics

If you're interested in locating sources to help you explore particular cultures, use search terms like the name of a country, ethnicity, or group to locate materials.

Finding Books Outside Bentley Library

You could replicate these searches in the WorldCat Catalog to look for books outside the library's collection. If you find some books that we don't have that would be useful to you, be sure to request them through Interlibrary Loan.

Search for Books Using the Bentley Library Search

You can use the library's catalog to find many books and other materials such as videos, government publications, and more. 

Bentley Library Search. Search for books, articles, videos, and more.

Searching for Ebooks

Can't make it into the library or want to see all of the options available to you? Try looking at some of our Ebook collections! Some of these books are discoverable in the catalog, but others can only be discovered by searching the databases themselves. Here are some of the best bet places to look for ebooks:

Selection of Titles

Culture and Order in World Politics
Fashion and Materiality
Culture
The Visual Culture Reader
How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture
Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture
Handbook of Culture and Consumer Behavior
Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: the cultural production of social anxiety
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture