Sentence:  The content of his words may lapse back into monotonous repetition , as if a phonograph needle were stuck in one groove ; only seldom is it so simple as to be a matter of his obviously parroting some timeworn axiom , common to our <WSD>culture</WSD> , which he has evidently heard , over and over , from a parent until he experiences it as part of him . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a particular society at a particular time and place