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This textbook presents the scientifically rigorous work in the last decades that has taken a behavior analytic perspective on larger social and cultural processes, with the eye to potential for contributions to address social and cultural issues. The book presents multiple intersecting perspectives intended for the use and application by graduate-level behavior analysis students. Contributors to this volume include many of the major scholars and practitioners conducting research and/or practicing in communities and larger cultural systems. Their work includes scientifically guided, systemic, and ecologically valid efforts related to community health, sustainability, and social justice efforts, among others, as well as basic research. All science proceeds by progressively building on the work of others, while remaining open to new findings and challenging existing conceptual frameworks. The same is true of cultural behavior science. This process will be explored and elaborated throughout this volume, intentionally assisting students both to learn and to question current theory and methods, while shaping and developing their own research and practice. There is material here to support preparation for specialists who intend to do research or practice with community and cultural-level systems, while providing enough background for students who intend to do direct and clinical work to also make contributions as engaged, informed citizens.? ?