Functions of Culture

2. Culture provides a series of models that can meet the biological and socio-cultural needs of group members such as food, evacuation centers, breeding, relationships with groups and individuals.

3. Culture provides a set of rules to ensure the cooperation of individuals within the group in adjusting the state of the environment.

5. Culture helps to understand and predict human behavior and provide interactive channels to individuals within the group.

6. Culture provides a roadmap or map of all our living activities. It defines an individual's behavioral pattern so that he can act according to cultural regulations and defined behavior patterns.

Therefore, the role of culture is to influence the rule of individuals and groups, direct actions, and life. All of these functions are controlled by social norms or regulations. Because these norms may be subject to sanctions and penalties, studies on norms, customs, folklore, laws, etc. are necessary to understand social culture.

For Lonergan, the right function of culture is to ensure and convey the meaning and value of social life. It accomplishes this through stories, rituals, customs and institutions. When culture works properly, it not only injects meaning and purpose into social cooperation but also criticizes and revises social practices in response to new situations that occur internally and externally. Crisis can occur as long as culture can not carry out its usual functions and can not creatively cope with changing situations. The scale of this crisis is big, but they can only be done in stages. Despite the centuries, all the impact of cultural failures may have been generations to become able to release themselves. Therefore, people with special insights need to be aware of the possibility of understanding the cultural crisis and its nature and solution.

We live in a culture of Design * where people are forced to do things they do not want. This is mainly because it lives in colonial culture, its main function is to use these cultures for the benefit of a few people. Most of us - even white people or men - are being exploited for a small number of benefits. Most of us are doing what we do not want to do most of the time. We did not spend time loving friends and family, but we spent the best time to earn more money for millions of CEOs. How much is this? Who wants it?

Caucasian 'main function of culture' and the level of progress are "Enable and control energy". According to the law, the way to judge the relative degree of cultural evolution is energy (energy consumption) that can be caught. White distinguishes five stages of human development. First, people use the energy of their muscles. Next, they use the energy of domesticated animals. Third, they use plant energy (hence white refers to the agricultural revolution). Fourth, they learn the use of natural resource energy, ie coal, oil and natural gas. Fifth, they are using nuclear power. White introduced the formula,