A Culture Change Eastern Culture To Western Culture

Social and cultural change can occur when a culture in contact with foreign cultures.

Social and cultural change is a symptom of the changing social structure and cultural

patterns in a community. Changes that occur in accordance with nature and human nature

always wants to make changes. There are three factors that can affect social change:

1. Working pressure in the community

2. Effectiveness of communication

3. Changes in the natural environment

Cultural changes can also arise due because the onset of changes in society, new discoveries, and

contact with other cultures. For example, the end of the ice age led to the discovery of farming

system, and then provoke other new innovations in culture.

Definitions of cultural changes many expressed by sociology and anthropology undergraduate,

among others:

a. John Lewis Gillin dan John Philip Gillin

Social change is a variation of the ways of life that is received that caused by changes to

geography, material culture, population composition, ideology, and because diffusion and

new inventions in society.

b. Samuel Koenig

Culture change show on the modifications that occur in the patterns of human life. These

modifications occur for reasons internal or external.

c. Koentjaraningrat

Culture is the whole idea and the work of human beings who should be familiarized with

the study, as well as the overall result of cultivation and the work.

Factors that could cause the occurrence of the change process of socialization of the population

changes, new discoveries, public opposition, rebellion and reform. Modernization can change from

pre-modern to modern times. Modernization includes socio-cultural process scope is so large that its

boundaries can not be determined absolutely.

Factors Affecting Cultural Change

Culture is something that will affect the level of knowledge and includes the system of ideas or the

ideas contained in the human mind, so in everyday life, the culture is abstract. While the

embodiment of cultural objects that are created by humans as cultural beings, and the behavior of

objects that are tangible, such as patterns of behavior, language, equipment life, social organization,

religion, art, etc. Which all of which is intended to assist humans in carrying out their social life. The

entry of western culture to indonesia caused one of them because of the crisis globalization are

envenom indonesia. Influence the run very fast and deal with various walks of life, of course the

influence will produce such far-reaching consequences on a system culture society. So fast influence

these foreign culture caused the jolts culture ( culture shock ), even a state where people can not

hold various influence culture coming from outside so happen imbalance in public life concerned.

The absorption element culture outer in doing quickly and not through a process internalization

deep can caused the lop-sided between form in show and values into its pad or commonly known

lop-sided culture . In some sort of a behavior, every civilization would affect one another. Social law

applies for all of civilization, advanced societies at a time tends to have a large impact for other

civilizations that develop recently . Development of advanced electronic technology, especially the

entry of foreign cultures (west) has unwittingly destroyed the local culture. The lack of knowledge of

cultural acculturation triggers the birth of new cultures. The entry of these cultures without

screening by the community and received raw. As a result, the original culture degraded society that

is extraordinary. Foreign culture into Indonesia led to a multi effect. Indonesian culture is slowly

getting extinct. Various ads that drive us to live in the context of modern slang and non-traditional

interests that led to many individuals who require above the interests of others. The result is the

nature of individualism is increasingly likely to be a culture of daily life. This is all true terhantui

cultural practices that nature will just simply fulfilling lives. The entry of foreigners into a country's

culture is actually a natural thing, as long as the culture is in accordance with national identity, but

we must keep our culture does not fade. Social change can be considered as a change of social

phenomena that exist in society, from the individual to more complex. Social change can be viewed

in terms of disruption of the continuity between the social unity, although the circumstances are

relatively minor. These changes include the structure, functions, values, norms, institutions, and all

aspects resulting from the interaction between people, organizations or communities, including a

change in culture.

The following are examples of social change:

Fashion

Whether changes occur on its own fashions? Of course, fashions change it is because there

are factors driving forces, such as the influx of Western culture through television. However,

changes in fashion it can also occur in other areas are still isolated.

Woman In Goverment

When first we rarely see women who were involved in the government, now there are

several important posts in government held by women. This happens because many women

have higher education and society is now more open and can accept a woman leader.

Communication

About 20 years ago, communication between people still use letters, telegrams, etc. the last

few years almost all walks of life have used handpone as a communication tool. SMS has

shifted the function letters and SMS this past year has been shifted to the trend of fuel

between blackberry users.

Factors Affecting Cultural Change

According to sources from Wikipedia, social and cultural change is a symptom of the changing social

structure and cultural patterns in a society that occur because of changes in communication; way

and the public mindset; other internal factors such as changes in population, new invention, the

occurrence of conflict or revolution; and external factors such as natural disasters and climate

change, warfare, and other community cultural influence. According to Hirschman, the boredom of

the real man is the cause of the change. As mentioned above, changes in the population is one of

the causes of cultural change internally, be it due to births, deaths or migration (migration).

Population movement is one of the causes to be reckoned with. Usually people tend to bring the

culture of immigrant origin. This causes a shift in society's culture of origin and cultural assimilation

occurs. This is reinforced if the culture that brought it look more modern and more attractive.

Example of external causes of cultural change is the introduction of western culture into Indonesia

with a very easy like Valentine's Day celebration, April mop, and Halloween. Mass media, is one of

the main means of entry of the culture and mingle with our culture.

Society in general do tend to imitate things - new things that are considered sophisticated,

interesting and fun, without thinking about its impact. This has been duly diwapadai. Along with the

development of technology and communication that allows each person to communicate with

others across regions, between islands, between countries and even between continents did not

rule out the inclusion of culture - foreign cultures and blend into society. the younger generation to

maintain awareness of indigenous culture of diminishing possible loss of the original culture of every

society, especially the people of Indonesia. This requires more care and concern for the people of

Indonesia can maintain a culture - positive cultures that are characteristic of Indonesia in the future -

the future.