W. David Marx

Wrapping everything up, with a few clarifications and some suggestions for further reading We started with a near-impossible mission: Define

If everything in culture is made of conventions, we should be able to explain all cultural phenomena in terms of

Conventions explain why we follow the same regular behaviors in our community, but they also explain how groups agree on

If culture describes the arbitrary aspects of life, conventions explain why communities repeatedly make the same arbitrary choices over so

In the third part of a seven-part limited series, we look at how arbitrary choices are at the core of

In the second part of a seven-part limited series, we search for the common components underlying the various definitions of

In the first part of a seven-part limited series, we examine the four main ways we use "culture,"