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Articles: Arts and Culture | Culture and Civilization - 14
- Mr. Vachaspati V.
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This is continuation of my series that is on ‘Culture and Civilization’.
Malinowski illustrated his functional scheme with the Charter of an institute.
He defined Charter of an institution as the system of values for the pursuit of which human beings organize or enter into an organization already existing.
He defined personnel of an institution as the group organized on different principles of authority, division of functions, and distribution of privileges and duties.
The rules or norms of the institution are technically acquired skills, habits, and legal norms, ethical commands that are accepted by members or imposed upon them.
Thus, it is obvious that both, the organization of the personnel and the nature of rules followed, are definitely related to the charter.
In this way, both the personnel and the rules are derived from the contingent upon the charter.
The first aim of any society, according to Malinowski, is survival. Thus, according to the charter, in every society, there re personnel who have norms or set of values. These norms and value inspire personnel for material apparatus, which creates activities, and activities ultimately lead a function.
General Axioms of Function of a culture:
1. A culture is essentially an instrumental apparatus by which a man is put in a position the better to cope with concrete specific problems that face them in his environment in the course of the satisfaction of his needs.
2. It is a system of objects, activities and attitudes in which every part exists as a means to an end.
3. It is an integral in which various elements are interdependent.
4. Such activities, attitudes and objects are organized to perform important and vital tasks in an institution such as family, clan, the whole community, tribe, and the organized team of cooperation, political, legal and educational activity.
5. From the dynamic point of view, as regards the type of activity, culture can be analyzed into number aspects such as education, social control, and economic system of knowledge, belief and morality and also modes of creative and artistic expression. The whole community, tribe, and the organized team of cooperation, political, legal and educational activity.
6. From the dynamic point of view, as regards the type of activity, culture can be analyzed into a number aspect such as education, social control, and economic system of knowledge, belief and morality and also modes of creative and artistic expression.
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