cultural functions are a set of roles performed by it in relation to the human community.As technology activities this set is a means of humanizing the world.Functions of culture are all social.The main role is considered humanistic (chelovekotvorcheskaya) role.It expressed the rest of the functions of culture:
- The converter.The function of culture is part of human motivation to create his world of artifacts, skills, technologies, successful natural transformation itself and society.
- transmission of social experience.This function is a public broadcast of experience from one generation to another, from one period to another.In case of breaking this continuity there is a possibility of loss of cultural memory of man.
- Adaptive function is expressed in a person's ability to adapt to the environment around him.According to A. Gehlen (one of the founders of cultural antopologii), a man is an animal "biologically inadequate."This sparked his quality desire to explore a variety of conditions through the establishment of the existence of the built environment.
- communicative role contributes to the formation of means and conditions for human communication.
All the above features are common to the concept of "culture" as a whole.In today's world, there are certain cultural areas.For most of them characterized by its own set of roles.
example, features of organizational culture are:
- formation of a certain image of the company (organization), by which it differs from any other.
- Creating a sense of community members.
- Strengthening dedication and commitment to the cause.
- Improving social stability in the organization.
- Formation and control of forms of perception and behavior, from the point of view of the company is appropriate.
should be noted that organizational culture is the mechanism by which formed standards of behavior inherent in a particular company.
functions of political culture (another direction) include:
- normative role.This situation contributes to the formation of the groups, individuals and society as a whole, certain norms, standards of political behavior and thinking, as well as responses to political conditions.At the same time it carried the designation boundaries beyond which political entity shall not act.
- role of fixing the respective hierarchy of values.For example, in some cases, the priority focuses on the state, in others - to any community.
- educational forming a certain kind of "political individual" adequate in the existing political system.
- integrative providing absorption of the population of political values and norms inherent in the existing community.Thus, there splachivanie people.
- mobilization, organizing citizens to address specific political and social problems.
- reproductive conducive to the reproduction of the existing system of social and political relations with all its inherent features and contradictions.Thus, a link between the outgoing and incoming generations, is provided as a result of political continuity and the continuity of the political process.
should be noted that the cultural development enhances safety and comfort of people.To survive is necessary to improve its own human nature, inner spirituality.The future of the people is largely determined by the direction that humanity will choose in its cultural development.
