THE TERM "CULTURE FIXATION" AND ITS USEFULNESS.

The article comments on the term culture fixation. The fact that culture fixations provoke a certain severance from the innovations is obvious. Another factor is that the farmers were not equal in economic and social level. Really, it was only the better-situated farmers within an area who were able to uphold culture fixation. For the more impoverished farmers it was only a case of mechanical simplification or degeneration. There are even examples, however, where culture fixation has been prominent in spite of social inferiority. The fact that culture fixation has chiefly been observed, or even can be substantiated, within connected geographical regions is fairly obvious. It is also this point which allows comparisons to be made on the economic plane. Naturally, an inventory of cultural material is required as a basis before any conclusions can be drawn. Each statement concerning culture fixation naturally requires specialized investigations made from different aspects. Among other things, consideration has to be given to the number of culture phenomena and to where they belong socially, for a culture product which is too isolated cannot be used for this purpose, but can possibly be a cog in the wheel when used later in another connection.