Culture encompasses the symbolic and expressive dimensions of social life. Culture includes sets of symbols such as language, intangible, abstract “mental products” such as ideas, beliefs, values, and identity, and the meanings given to material objects such as clothing, decorations, art objects, buildings, and the like. Contemporary sociological work has abandoned any dichotomy between “culture” and “social structure” to instead examine the ways culture is analytically embedded in all aspects of human society, including within institutions, organizational routines, and social networks. Thus, culture, as variously understood, is key to understanding the emergence, development, and impact of social movements.