Human And Culture

Human As Creator And Culture User

Culture is created or manifested is the result of the interaction between human beings with all the content in this universe. Man created by God with a mind equipped by so able to work on this earth and in essence became caliph in this world. Besides, people also have reason, intelligence, intuition, feelings, emotions, wishes, fantasies and behavior. With all the capabilities possessed by humans, the man who created the culture. There is a dialectic relationship between people and cultures. Culture is a human product, but the man himself is a product of culture. In other words, culture is because people who created it and man can live amid the creation of culture. Culture will continue to live when there are humans as pendudukungnya.
Culture has a very great usefulness to humans. The work of human beings who have the technology raises major usefulness in protecting humans against the natural environment. So culture has a role as
1. A guide relations between people or groups
2. Containers to channel those feelings and other abilities.
3. As the supervisor of human life and livelihood
4. Distinguishing human and animal
5. Clues about how humans should act and behave within the association.
6. Manager for humans to understand how it should act, do and make up his mind when dealing with others.
7. As an authorized capital development.
Effect of Environmental Culture
Developed by human culture will have implications for the environment in which culture evolves. A culture emit a characteristic of society that looks from the outside. By analyzing the influence of culture on the environment due to someone to find out, why certain suatulingkungan will vary with other environmental and generating a different culture.
Several variables related to cultural and environmental issues:
1. Environment Phisical the physical environment refers to the natural environment such as flora, fauna, climate and so forth.2. Social Cultural Environment, including the cultural aspects and the process sosialisanya such as: the norms, customs and values.3. Environmental Orientation and Representation, referring to the perception and cognitive beliefs different in every society on the environment.4. Behaviordan Environmental and Process, including how people use the environment in social relations.5. Produc Carries Out, Includes results of human actions such as building homes, communities and so forth.
From the description above can be concluded that the prevailing culture and developed in a particular environment has implications for spatial patterns of behavior, norms, values ​​and other aspects of life that characterizes a society with other people.
Process and Cultural Development
Culture is the result of creativity, initiative and sense of human culture and therefore change and development in line with human development. The development is intended for the benefit of man himself, because culture is created by and for humans.
Culture is owned by a social group will not be spared from cultural influence of other groups in the presence of contacts between groups or via the process of diffusion. A social group will adopt a certain culture when culture is useful to overcome or meet the guidance that it faces.
Adoption of a culture can not be separated from the influence of physical environmental factors. For example, climate topography and other natural resources. From time to time, culture developed along with the rapid advancement of technology (this is dalamhal telecommunications system) which is important in every human kehiduapan.
Development of the age led to changes in all areas, including culture. Inevitably culture adopted a social group will shift. A group in sosialbisa group just wanted a change in culture that they embraced, with the excuse is no longer relevant with the times that they face today. However, these cultural changes are sometimes mistaken to be a cultural aberration.
The most important thing in the process of cultural development is the presence of control or control of the behavior of regular (visible) is shown by the followers of the culture. Because there is rarely displayed behavior contrary to the sting of a culture that embraced within the social groups that exist in society. Once again that is needed is control / social controls that exist in society so that it can sort out where the culture is appropriate and what is not appropriate.
 Problems of Culture
Along with the development, culture also experienced some problems or issues are pretty obvious problems are:
1. Cultural barriers that have anything to do with world view and belief systems.2. Cultural barriers related to differences in viewpoint or perception.3. cultural barriers related to psychological factors or psychological.4. Remote or isolated communities and lack of communication with other people.5. Traditionalism that berprasangaka bad attitude towards new things6. Glorifying the culture of their own tribe and other ethnic cultural harassing or better known as understood Ethnocentrism.7. The development of science and technology as a result of the culture.
Cultural ChangeAs we already know that the culture had been developed (dynamic) in accordance with the development of man himself, and therefore there is no culture is static. Thus, the culture will change. There are five causes of cultural change that is:
1. Changes in the natural environment2. Changes caused by contact with other groups3. Changes due to the invention (discovery)4. Changes that occur because a society or nation to adopt some elements of material culture that has been developed by other nations elsewhere.5. Changes that occur as a nation mengadopsisuatu modify its way of life with new knowledge or belief or because of changes in world view and conception of reality.

***reference : http://bukittingginews.com/2010/10/makalah-manusia-dan-kebudayaan/