Abstract
This chapter briefly outlines three general conceptions: culture as structure, as distribution of psycho-social traits, as interpretative activity. Specificities, similarities and differences among these approaches are discussed. Moreover, in order to provide common ground to these conceptions, a semantic space of culture is defined. This semantic space is obtained from the combination of two analytic dimensions: the level of analysis (micro vs macro) and the ontological status (culture as process vs culture as entity). Rather than providing a comprehensive definition, the four quadrants obtained by the intersection of these two dimensions maps the inevitable pluralism of culture.
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