Discusses the question of whether 'culture' refers to some superorganic entity that exists in its own right, or is only convenient short-hand for the shared beliefs and behaviour of human individuals.

F Allan Hanson

Chapter 1 The subject matter of social science*Portions of this Chapter were presented at the IXth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. They will appear under the title 'Meaning in Culture' in The Concept and Dynamics of Culture, ed. Bernardo Bernardi, in press. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Mouton & Co., The Hague, for permission to print them here.; Chapter 2 Judging other cultures; Chapter 3 ); Chapter 4 But is it scientific?; Chapter 5 Some anthropological applications;