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KNOWLEDGE OF CULTURE FOR THE REALIZATION OF SOCIAL ORDER

FOLORUNSO Paul Olorunsola, PhD

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Abstract

The knowledge of culture is about the proper understanding of the human person on the actions expressed and the choices made. It is about the human person to know and sustain the values of his or her culture through the knowledge of his or herself as a subject of lived experience, Hence, the paper recognised that some of the main concerns of culture in relation to the adoption of communication and information by any human given society are aimed at establishing a common ground of understanding and social orderliness. The quest for social orderliness indispensably explicates the relations of human culture and the consciousness of the individual to promote the values of self-authenticity, self-dynamism and self-participation. Such convictions are the projects of human lived experiences which are enlivened by effects of one’s cultural values. Human development associated with socialization of human interests owes that: culture precipitates development through the instrumentality of social order. Human culture defines the largest part of human socialization, and both cannot be separated, but wholly interconnected and interrelated. Therein, what defines a person as a subject of lived experiences and as an agent of personalistic communication is the ability to express one’s actions through culture. Adopting analytical and speculative methods of research, the paper is directed to ascertain the valuation of the human person through the employment of culture for the realization of social order. The paper concludes that the personal model of culture is both cosmological and transcendental, and at such, the human person becomes the determinate subject for social and transcendental order.   

Keywords: Culture, Development, Human Person, Human Society, Knowledge, Social Order,