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Heisenberg, Werner 1983 A rész és az egész. Budapest. Köves Pál - Párniczky Gábor 1981 Általános statisztika II. Budapest. Kunt Ernő 1987 Az utolsó átváltozás. A magyar parasztság halálképe. Budapest. Lorenz, Konrad 1989 A civilizált emberiség nyolc halálos bűne. Sopron. Moór Arthur 1979 Matematika III-IV. Egyetemi jegyzet, Erdészeti és Faipari Egyetem. Sopron. Price de Solla, Derek 1979 Kis tudomány - Nagy tudomány. Budapest. Sárkány Mihály 1980 Kultúra, etnikum, etnikai csoport. In.: Előmunkálatok a Magyarság Néprajzához 7. (Szerk.: Paládi-Kovács Attila). Budapest. ABSTRACT CULTURAL PROCESSES Gábor Fejér As I interpret it, the task of ethnography is to study human culture. I define culture as the characteristic form and product of articulation of the existing vehicles of culture; I place human activities and their results in the focus of research on human culture. I interpret society as a complex system of connections between individuals constituting society. Since human activities become concentrated on the highest level within the dimensions of society, ethnography is thus a social science. The whole of society ought, therefore, to be the subject of ethnography, with one insisting that the research may focus on any sub-units of society (which are differentiated in a representative way according to differences in gender, age, occupation, financial status, etc.) and that none of its layers may automatically be excluded. On the other hand, activities are determined by the conditions of time as well. This, and the fact that activities are systematically organized, provide ethnography with historical characteristics. The standpoint of the paper is that ethnography does not confront occasionally appearing crisis-situations but, ever since it became an independent 80