ABSTRACT
The three cultures of Zuni, of Dobu, and of the Kwakiutl are not merely heterogeneous assortments of acts and beliefs. An intimate and understanding study of a genuinely disoriented culture would be of extraordinary interest. The relation of cultural integration to studies of Western civilization and hence to sociological theory is easily misunderstood. The integration of culture has important sociological consequences and impinges upon several moot questions of sociology and social psychology. The first of these is the controversy over whether or not society is an organism. The difficulty of understanding from the nature of the occasion even comparatively simple cultural responses has been clear over and over again in the description of the three cultures we have selected. The difficulty with naive interpretations of culture in terms of individual behaviour is not that these interpretations are those of psychology, but that they ignore history and the historical process of acceptance or rejection of traits.
