Традиція як механізм збереження культури

Abstract

The abstract presents the tradition as a mechanism of preservation of culture. They say that culture is created by the people but the pieces of are created by the person indeed, creative minority. Namely they created new forms of relations, ideals and values. Innovators aren’t appreciated in all time as a rule. Ancient civilization and cultural achievements were always inclined towards self-preservation but not for innovative ideas, that’s why there was worked out the mechanism of preservation of the civilization and the culture and it got the name tradition. There fixed that traditions are not left unchangeable forever. The greatest changes happen at the moment of social cataclysms of the ethnos, nation or state. Thus certain part of traditions is being preserved but others are being transformed in new conditions. The stability of the culture, its values or its changeability seriously influence onto the heredity of the culture without the existence of which the development of the culture is impossible.