FIGURE 1.2 CULTURE AS A SKYSCRAPERCulture is diverse and difficult to categorize. Yet throughout the twentieth century, we tended to think of culture not as a social process but as a set of products sorted into high, low, or middle positions on a cultural skyscraper. Look at this highly arbitrary arrangement and see if you agree or disagree. Write in some of your own examples. Why do we categorize or classify culture in this way? Who controls this process? Is control of making cultural categories important? Why or why not?