On Defining Culture

Abstract

American AnthropologistVolume 59, Issue 6 p. 1075-1081 Free Access On Defining Culture Leon J. Goldstein, Leon J. Goldstein Brookline, MassachusettsSearch for more papers by this author Leon J. Goldstein, Leon J. Goldstein Brookline, MassachusettsSearch for more papers by this author First published: December 1957 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1957.59.6.02a00110Citations: 14AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat REFERENCES CITED Bagby, Philip H. 1953 Culture and the causes of culture. American Anthropologist 55: 535– 54. Bidney, David 1953 Theoretical anthropology. New York, Columbia University Press. Blumenthal, Albert 1937 Culture consists of ideas. Marietta, Ohio. Blumenthal, Albert 1937b The best definition of culture. Marietta, Ohio. Blumenthal, Albert 1940 A new definition of culture. American Anthropologist 42: 571– 86. Blumenthal, Albert 1954 An inductive study of the nature of culture. Social Forces 33: 113– 21. Carnap, Rudolf 1949 The two concepts of probability. In Readings in philosophical analysis; ed. by H. Feigl and W. Sellars New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts. Carnap, Rudolf 1950 The logical foundations of probability. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Dingle, Herbert 1954 The sources of Eddington's philosophy. Cambridge, University Press. Durkheim, Emile 1938 The rules of sociological method. (Reprinted 1950) Glencoe, The Free Press. Goldstein, Leon J. 1955 Bidney's humanistic anthropology. Review of Metaphysics 8: 493– 509. Goldstein, Leon J. 1956 The inadequacy of the principle of methodological individualism. Journal of Philosophy 53: 801– 13. Haring, Douglas G. 1949 Is “culture” definable American Sociological Review 14: 26– 32. Hempel, Carl G. 1952 Fundamentals of concept formation in empirical science. International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Vol. II, No. 7. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Kroeber, A. L. and Clyde Kluckhohn 1952 Culture: a critical review of concepts and definitions. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology. Cambridge, Harvard University Press. Malinowski, Bronislaw 1944 A scientific theory of culture and other essays. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press. Moore, Omar K. 1952 Nominal definitions of “culture”. Philosophy of Science 19: 245– 56. Moore, Omar K. and Donald J. Lewis 1952 Learning theory and culture. Psychological Review 59: 380– 88. Northrop, F. S. C. 1947 The logic of the sciences and the humanities. New York, The Macmillan Company. Osgood, Cornelius 1951 Culture: its empirical and non-empirical character. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 7: 202– 14. Popper, Karl R. 1950 The open society and its enemies. Princeton, Princeton University Press. Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. 1952 Structure and function in primitive society. London, Cohen and West. Robinson, Richard 1950 Definition. Oxford, Clarendon Press. Watkins, J. W. N. 1952a Ideal types and historical explanation. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 3: 22– 43. Watkins, J. W. N. 1952b The principle of methodological individualism. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 3: 186– 89. White, Leslie A. 1954 Review of Kroeber and Kluckhohn, Culture: a critical review of concepts and definitions. American Anthropologist 56: 461– 68. Citing Literature Volume59, Issue6December 1957Pages 1075-1081 ReferencesRelatedInformation