An attempt is made to attract attention to the difficulties which one faces while studying culture. Culture is studied using scientific methods. The possibilities of science as a phenomenon of culture in its turn are related to a particular level of culture. So a researcher is constrained to proceed from the models of the object under discussion constructed by himself or adopted from others. However, a model of reality and reality itself do not coincide. In addition, a researcher is a product of a particular time. This dependency necessarily modifies his style of thinking and cognitive possibilities and limits his sphere of action to the definite empirical data and the present theoretical conceptions.Straipsnyje nagrinėjama kultūros sąvoka,...