Americans Defining Culture in Real Time

How do Americans define the important terms of our time? What are the overlaps and divergences? At the American Communities Project, we’re looking to understand how Americans think, the geographical connections between people, and what we can learn from one another in a time of division and rapid change.

To that end, we’re asking people to share their thoughts of 25 terms. Visit our survey here.

The words are:

1. Community

2. Government

3. Religion

4. First Amendment

5. Second Amendment

6. News Media

7. Social Media

8. Culture

9. Race

10. Diversity

11. Freedom

12. America

13. American Dream

14. Work

15. Well-Being

16. Public Health

17. Gender Identity

18. Family

19. Justice

20. Minority

21. Personal Responsibility

22. Inequality

23. Liberal

24. Conservative

25. Democracy 

Hope you’ll take the survey and share it. We look forward to writing about the findings in the coming months at americancommunities.org.