The word "culture" has Latin roots and means "cultivate the soil." What is the connection between agriculture and human behavior? Indeed , phrases widely used in the Russian language belong to it: the culture of behavior, the culture of speech, a cultured person, the spiritual culture of a person , physical culture. Let's try to figure this out.
What is culture as a social phenomenon?
Indeed, the relationship "man-nature" underlies the concept of culture as a complex diverse phenomenon. Man in nature has found an opportunity for the creative realization of his abilities. Human activity on the transformation of the natural world, the reflection of nature in the products of activity, the influence of nature and the world on the inside of a person is interpreted as culture.
Culture has some distinctive properties - continuity, traditions, innovation.
Each generation carries the experience of cultural development of the world of previous generations, builds its transforming activities on established principles, styles, directions, and, as a result of assimilation of previous achievements, strives forward, developing, updating and perfecting the world around it.
The constituent parts of culture are material and spiritual.
Material culture includes everything related to objects and phenomena of the material world, their production and development.
Spiritual culture is a combination of spiritual values ​​and human activities for their production, development and application.
In addition, they talk about the types of crops. These include:
- elite culture - created by professionals, a privileged part of society; not always understood by wide sections of society.
- folk culture - folklore - created by unknown authors, amateurs; collective creativity.
- mass culture - they mean concert, pop art, acting through the media.
- subculture - the system of values ​​of a certain group, community.
What is a culture of behavior?
This concept determines the totality of the formed personality traits that are socially significant, allowing to base everyday actions on the norms of morality. The assimilation of universal values ​​allows us to regulate our own activities in accordance with the requirements of society.
However, we can state the fact that the concept of "culture of behavior" and its norms change depending on the state of morality in a particular historical period of development of society.
For example, just twenty years ago, civil marriage and extramarital sex was severely condemned in Russian society, and today in some circles it is already considered the norm.
What is a speech culture ?
The culture of speech is the correspondence of speech to the norms of a literary language. As far as modern man needs it, one can judge the growing popularity of training courses. A high professional level implies a high level of proficiency in speech norms.
In addition, the individual level of a person’s spiritual culture corresponds to his speech culture. A beautiful, fashionable, stylish girl evokes the admiring glances of others. However, as soon as she opens her mouth, a stream of obscene expressions hits the audience. The spiritual culture of man is evident.
What is a culture of communication?
Communication is a phenomenon of social society. Distinguish between verbal and non-verbal communication. The ability to communicate productively, to interact through communication with people around us, partners, and colleagues is a socially significant quality of a modern successful person.
The culture of communication involves the connection of three components.
Firstly, communication is associated with the skills of perceiving another person, perceiving verbal and non-verbal information (perception).
Secondly, the ability to convey information and feelings to a communication partner (communication) is of great importance.
Thirdly, interaction in the process of communication (interaction) is crucial in assessing the effectiveness of communication.
Culture is a multifaceted, complex concept that characterizes a certain level of development of both society as a whole and each individual person.