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Problems of culture in modern society

Authors: Miroshnichenko M.I, Sidorova K.L.

Source: http://suiai.edu.ua/projects/icmiu-iep/download/conference-2009-section-5-1-miroshnichenko_mi-_sidorova_kl-report.doc

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Miroshnichenko M.I, Sidorova К.L. Problems of culture in modern society.  This work is devoted to political, environmental and economic problems of culture. They are associated with the consumption of material and spiritual blessings, with the rapid flow of information. Refers to the fact that in modern society is dehumanization of man.:

The topic of this work is problems of culture; this item of discussion is rather actual today, because we can say, we are intoxicated with our civilization, with consumption of material and spiritual goods, with flood of information. Moreover, in the life of modern society dehumanization of man is taking place, tearing up from the roots of every person's of cultural identity is going unnoticed. We are trying to sound the alarms about political, ecological and economic problems. We also do not realize that these are the result of different living models and different ways of thinking, and finale crisis in culture.

The object of this work is culture in every respect. It is the set of human activity patterns within a society or social group and symbolic structures that give us significance activity. Customs, lows, popular styles, social standards and traditions are all examples of these cultural elements.

Human world of exists as much as it is cultivated. The major feature of culture is its pervasive character, indispensable inclusion in all spheres of society life and personality. Social conflict and development of technologies can produce changes within a society by altering social dynamics and promoting new cultural models and spurring or enabling generative action.

A loss of culture is not only a tragedy for the world's social fabric, but a loss of intimate knowledge of the natural world. Modern level of technological development assumes leading hand knowledge and information in the process of production. Main factor of economic progress is fast growth of knowledge, but it has led to new problems, connected every aspect of social life. The source of the tragedy of culture is divergence between amount of information, which had been generated by people and their individual abilities to use it.

We are proud of our education. We have canonized school as an educational institution. In spite of the fact that it does not orient us towards the basic attributes of the culture of behavior, inter–personal relations and cultivation of consciousness, thought, communication or language. School prepares us in most cases for economic sphere. This situation leads to heaps of information and global problems, humanity become insignificant, powerless and disoriented.

Men and women figure are equal characters in system of cultural. Most dominant world cultures have been patrilineal, although some examples of matriarch can be found in main cultures. These patrilineal cultures have systematically limited the women's power of in social, political and religious institutions. While learning this topic, we are trying to respond to the complex question: "What culture IS?" This reminds us of imbalances in power distribution between males and females are not part of the answer.

It is not a part of the answer. Moreover, we should examine this problem as a fundamental part of the process of inquiry. The present crisis in society is not only a social, economic and ecological one. It is also a crisis of culture. It is necessary to work out a conception in the cultural sphere, which would enable a comprehensive solution of the problems had been mentioned above. It is important to give culture a place on the pedestal, which belongs to it: above parties, above science, above the individual. It is important to protect culture  as a phenomenon being a main condition, of further existence of humanity. Formal guarantees: conceiving and adopting a The Charter of Culture, The Act on Culture, and so on should be placed in the appropriate place in constitutions. So, it is important to act quickly and energetically – perhaps it is not too late, and everything has been not lost yet.

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