SHWEDER et LEVINE (ed.), Culture Theory

Levine en arrive à trois constats sur la nature de la culture:
La culture est un système COMPLEXE, ORGANISÉ ET COLLECTIF.

"From this perspective, every human community functions with a group consensus about the meanings of the symbols used in the communications that constitute their social life, however variable their behavior and attitudes in other respects, because such a consensus is as necessary for encoding and decoding messages in social communication in genera as agreement about speech rules is to encoding and decoding in the linguistic mode." (Robert A. Levine, 69)