DEFINISI

CULTURE DEFINISI


Culture is closely connected with the community. Melville J. Herskovits and Bronislaw Malinowski argued that everything contained in society is determined by the culture which is owned by the community itself. The term for it is the opinion of the Cultural-determinism.
Herskovits looking at culture as something handed down from one generation to another, which is then referred to as superorganic.
According to Andreas Eppink, cultures containing the overall sense of social values, social norms, knowledge and overall social structures, religious, and others, in addition any statement of intellectual and artistic that characterizes a society.
According to Edward Burnett Tylor, culture is a complex whole, which has in it the knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, customs, and other abilities from any person as a member of society.
According Selosoemardjan, and Soelaiman Soemardi, culture is a means of work, taste, and creativity of society.
From these various definitions, can be obtained an understanding of the culture is something that will affect the level of knowledge, and includes a system of ideas or the ideas contained in the human mind, so that in everyday life, the culture is abstract.
While the embodiment of culture are objects that are created by man as a creature of culture, in the form of behavior, and objects that are tangible, such patterns of behavior, language, equipment life, social organization, religion, art, and others, all of which are intended to help people in the hold of social life.