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Functions of culture

The functions of culture are a set of roles performed by it in relation to the human community. As a technology of activity, this set is a means of humanizing the whole world. The functions of culture are all social. The main role is considered a humanistic (human-creative) role. In it are expressed other functions of culture:

  1. Transformative. The function of culture includes motivating a person to create his world of artifacts, acquiring skills, technologies for successful natural transformations, himself, society.
  2. Transfer of social experience. This function is a translation of social experience from one generation to another, from one period to another. In the event of the discontinuity of this continuity, the probability of loss of a person's cultural memory arises.
  3. Adaptive function is expressed in a person's ability to adapt to the environment surrounding him. According to A. Gehlen (one of the founders of cultural anthropology ), man is an animal "biologically inadequate". This quality provoked the desire to master various conditions by creating an artificial environment of existence.
  4. A communicative role contributes to the formation of means and conditions for human communication.

All of the above functions are common to the concept of "culture" in general. In the modern world there are also separate cultural directions. For most of them, the set of roles is characteristic.

So, the functions of organizational culture are:

  1. Formation of a certain image of the company (organization), with which it differs from any other.
  2. Creating a sense of community members of the organization.
  3. Strengthening of devotion and involvement in the common cause.
  4. Enhancing social stability in the organization.
  5. Formation and control over forms of perception and behavior, from the point of view of the company being appropriate.

It should be noted that organizational culture is the mechanism through which the standards of behavior inherent in a certain company are formed.

Functions of political culture (another of the areas) include:

  1. Normative role. This provision contributes to the formation of certain norms, standards in political behavior and thinking in groups, individuals, society as a whole, as well as reaction to political conditions. At the same time, borders are being delineated, beyond which the political subject should not speak.
  2. The role of fixing the hierarchy of the corresponding values. For example, in some cases, priority is directed to the state, in others to a community.
  3. Educational, forming a certain kind of "political individual", adequate in the existing political system.
  4. Integration, providing assimilation by the population of political values and norms inherent in the existing community. Thus, there is a rallying of people.
  5. Mobilization, which organizes citizens to solve certain political and social problems.
  6. Reproductive, contributing to the reproduction of the existing system of social and political relationships with all its inherent characteristics and contradictions. Thus, a connection is formed between outgoing and coming generations, political continuity and continuity of political processes are ensured as a result .

It should be noted that cultural development enhances the security and comfort of people. To survive, you need to improve your own human nature, inner spirituality. The future of people is largely determined by the direction that humanity will choose in its cultural development.

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