THE PHENOMENON OF ACCULTURATION
THE PHENOMENON OF ACCULTURATION

Summary/Abstract: Culture is an attitude in the public space, it is man's everyday life, his inner attitude, the way he relates to social and material reality. Culture is a set of accepted symbols and values that form a logical network and affirm desirable qualities, while having a normative and axiological character based on moral theories. What does culture do? Culture gives meaning to human existence, establishes norms of behaviour, social rules and sets values. What would happen to human society if there were no culture? Language, customs, moral values, tastes and standards, family structures, attitudes to gender, attitudes to self, self-boundaries, attitudes to community and civility would be out of balance and would lead to chaos. Culture is the basis of today's society, which has undergone major changes over time, and this is the main essence that can shape the popular mass, in the formation of man's personality. Under specific historical conditions, people have expressed their own vision of life and the world, of man, formulating a system of values, and have created forms of culture through which they have revealed their spiritual choices, ideals, expectations, disappointments, or rejections.

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