A Review of Concepts

TL;DR: In a world where all resources-time, energy, and physical resources-are limited, the goal is that ultimate energies should be conserved and that institutions and values should, in the last analysis, be consistent with common ends as mentioned in this paper.

Abstract: "INTEGRATION of culture" is a term with many meanings, all of which imply some congruity of the parts of a culture, and therefore some economy in their use. In a world where all resources-time, energy, and physical resources-are limited, the goal is that ultimate energies should be conserved and that institutions and values should, in the last analysis, be consistent with common ends. While integration of culture is, in this sense, a term pertaining to the science of economics, the concept has long-though loosely-been a concern of philosophy. The most specific contributions to this term, however, [iave come from the behavioral sciences. For description and analysis, the term "integration of culture" depends upon anthropology and sociology, and to some extent, history; and it depends upon psychology for interpretation of the nature and process of the interrelation of