Culture functions

The functions of culture are a set of its roles in relation to the human community. As a technology of activity, this totality is a means of humanizing the whole world. The functions of culture are all social. The main role is considered a humanistic (human) role. It expresses the other functions of culture:

1. Transformative. The functions of culture include prompting a person to create his own world of artifacts, acquiring skills, technologies for successful natural transformations, himself, and society.
2. Transmission 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 a rupture 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 anthology ), man is an animal "biologically inadequate." This quality of his provoked the desire to master various conditions by creating an artificial living environment.
4. The 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" as a whole. In the modern world, there are separate cultural trends. Most of them have their own set of roles.

So, the functions of organizational culture are:

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

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

The functions of political culture (another of the directions) include:

1. Normative role. This position contributes to the formation of groups, individuals, society as a whole of certain norms, standards in political behavior and thinking, as well as reactions to political conditions. Along with this, the boundaries are delineated beyond which the political subject should not act.
2. The role of fixing the hierarchy of relevant values. For example, in some cases, priority is directed to the state, in others - to some community.
3. Educational, forming a certain type of "political individual", adequate in the existing political system.
4. Integration, ensuring the assimilation of the population of political values ​​and norms inherent in the existing community. Thus, there is a rallying of people.
5. Mobilization, organizing citizens in order to solve certain political and social problems.
6. Reproductive, contributing to the reproduction of the existing system of social and political relations with all its inherent features and contradictions. Thus, a connection is formed between outgoing and incoming generations, as a result, political continuity and continuity of political processes are ensured .

It should be noted that cultural development enhances the safety and comfort of people. For survival it is necessary to perfect one's own human nature, inner spirituality. The future of people is largely determined by the direction that humanity will choose in its cultural development.