Culture as a Social Regulatory Program: The Stage of Formation

Abstract: The article develops the author's concept of the origin of culture as a system of social norms, as a process of spontaneous ordering of social interaction and communication, which resulted in formation of customs (as a system of normative behavior) and languages of oral and written communication (as a system of normative communication). In author’s opinion, functional foundations of the phenomenon of culture are in this process of ordering and standardization of social interaction and communication.

Keywords: culture, ordering, standardization, social interaction, social communication, behavior, customs, languages, cultural diversity of humanity.

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