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*I wish to thank the Research Councils of Hobart and William Smith Colleges and of the College Center of the Finger Lakes for financial support for the research project from which this paper is drawn. I wish also to thank Professors John C. Wahlke, Leon Stover and Dan Nimmo for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper. 1Kroeber & Kluckhohn undertook a critical review of a few hundred definitions of culture: A. L. Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn, Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions, 1952. 2Culture, or civilization, . . is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society, quoted by Kroeber-Kluckhohn, Ibid., p. 43. 3A. L. Kroeber, Anthropology, 1948, p. 253 & p. 292. 4Clyde Klyckhohn, The Concept of Culture, Culture and Behavior, ed., Richard Kluckhohn, 1962, pp. 19-20.

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