Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2009
Conflation of the two levels of analysis – of the properties of the Cultural System with Socio-Cultural activities – always takes place in a particular direction. Chapters 2 and 3 dealt with two out of the three possible methods of conflation. This pair were the antithesis of one another for in them conflation took place in precisely the opposite direction: in the one the Cultural System was held to organize the Socio-Cultural level, while in the other Socio-Cultural interaction orchestrated the Cultural System. Thus in the downwards version, Cultural Systems engulfed the Socio-Cultural domain through the basic processes of regulation and socialization, while in the upwards version, the Socio-Cultural level swallowed up the Cultural System as the result of domination and manipulation. In brief, both versions treated one level as an epiphenomenon of the other level – they differed about which of the levels was held to be epiphenomenal.
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