forms of culture and its type - it is a complex structure, which affect both regional and historical and national, and all other areas of human life.With all this we try to figure out right now.
Typology of Culture - is its classification according to various criteria.Consider, for what it is.
By activity and ways to meet human needs culture is divided into:
1. material culture, which is based on the reproductive, rational activity.It is expressed in the subject-objective form and is designed to meet the primary needs of man.As part of this type of isolated forms of culture such as work culture, habitat, everyday.
2. spiritual culture, which is based on creative, rational activity and is intended to satisfy human needs secondary.This type consists of religious, moral, legal, political, educational, intellectual culture.
3. artistic culture, it is based on creative, irrational activity and is intended to satisfy human needs secondary.It may be expressed as in the subjective and objective-objective form.Art culture consists of pure (architecture, music, dance, film, fine arts) and applied art (floristic, beauty, cooking, hairdressing, etc.).
4. Physical Education, which is designed to meet the primary human needs.This includes sports, recreation, sexual culture.
As the carrier of culture is divided into:
1. World, which is a synthesis of the national cultures of all the peoples of planet Earth.
2. National (ethnic) that characterize the experience and features of residence, customs, regulations, customs, language, adopted in a particular area.
Separately should mention such a thing as a subculture that is not only different from the culture dominant in a given society, and even opposed to, the conflict with the accepted values, ideals, and norms of behavior, etc.
main forms of culture
In accordance with who creates a culture and at what level it is, to distinguish between the following forms of it.
1. Culture of elite (high), which creates a privileged society.The motto of this form is: "Art for art's sake."This could include some art, poetry, etc.association.
2. Folk Culture (collective), which, unlike the elite created by unknown creators who did not have any professional training.Examples of this form: folk songs, dances and tales, myths, folklore, customs and traditions.
3. mass culture that has evolved with the development of the media.This form is created for the mass and the mass consumed.
In popular culture takes no refined aristocratic tastes or spiritual quest of a people.The largest scale of this form acquired in the middle of the last century, when the media have penetrated many countries.The mechanism of this culture is related to the market directly.
Popular culture can be national and international.Typically, it has less artistic value than the first two forms of culture.However, unlike them, the mass is always the author, and has a large audience.Samples of mass culture tend to go out of fashion, losing its relevance that works with elite and folk cultures never happens.
The role of culture in human life
role of culture in the lives of people can be expressed in the following list of its features:
1. The adaptive function.Culture allows a person to adapt to the social and natural environment.
2. Cognitive function.Culture provides a socially significant human or true knowledge about the environment, which allows him to successfully adapt as much as possible.
3. Valuable function.Culture provides goal-setting human development defines norms of behavior accepted in a given society.
4. Information and communicative function.Culture allows you to save and transfer in space and time of social and significant information, which is the guarantor of the unity and mutual understanding of a society.
5. Regulatory (regulatory) function.Culture is defined and governed by different types of parties and personal and social activities of people (at home, at work, in interpersonal relationships).
6. semiotic (sign) function.Culture - is a system of certain characters who are not studying, you can not master the cultural achievements.
