ABSTRACT
Because it has Become Intellectually fashionable to recognize everywhere the signs of a homogenization of society, many authors claim that the cultural distances between groups and classes are tending to diminish. In fact, we first need to know what is understood by culture, and whether people are not playing, consciously or unconsciously, on the two meanings of the word, the meaning attributed to it by ethnologists — that is to say the set of models governing the behaviour and thought of the members of a society or a given social group — and the more restricted and traditional meaning, which designates the system of works of civilization specific to a particular society or, more precisely, to certain classes of such societies.
