In Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions (1952), U.S. anthropologists A.L. ... Kroeber and Kluckhohn were led to their conclusion that culture is an abstraction by reasoning that if culture is behavior, it becomes the subject matter of psychology; therefore, they concluded that culture "is an abstraction from concrete behavior but is not itself behavior." ... When things and events are considered in the context of their relation to the human organism, they constitute behavior; when they are considered not in terms of their relation to human, but in their relationship to one an...

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L Simmons The definition of the situation implies that if you define a situation as real, it is real only in its consequences. ... As a matter of fact, both phrases point equally to the fact that sociological explanations of deviance function as a product of social control rather than a product of psychology or genetic inheritance. Some sociologists would explain deviance by accepting without question definitions of deviance and concerning themselves with primary aetiology. ... These theorists were trained in terms of symbolic interaction and specific methods of participatory field research. ....

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He openly integrated psychology into sociology, attempting to "develop an abstract science of individual interactions." ... Simmel struggled with a precise definition of the stranger because at best it is the combination of the stranger's remoteness and nearness with respect to the group he approaches. ... His belief that men naively assume their experiences and their world is shared with all others is crucial to understanding the main arguments in his essay "The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology"# published in 1944 in the American Journal of Sociology. ...

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