Culture and its financing

Abstract

Culture is the totality of the knowledge, moral norms, symbols, lifestyle traits and acquired behavioural patterns of society. Culture is soctety's way of life, the heritage passed down by previous generations; the way of thinking and the world view; an intellectual standard to be acquired by education and cultivation. Culture is a category that can be defined in many ways; in its most general interpretation, it encompasses all areas of learning. It determines our everyday lives; it is the basis for social-economic development. Its direct social-economic effects are difficult or impossible to express numerically, but its role can be traced down in social and economic processes. Cultural progress is advocated by all political ideologies and there is general agreement that the state must foster it.