Seeking essay on the relationship between economy and culture

The relationship between economy and culture [Abstract] From the perspective of the process of social and historical development, culture and economy are always linked to each other, promote each other and **** the same development, however, the relationship between cultural development and economic development is not always the case, and there are times when the cultural development and the economic development even become negatively correlated, i.e., the cultural development and the economic development do not form a logic of their own. This requires us to look at the relationship between culture and economy correctly in order to better promote social development.

[Keywords] culture and economic development, negative correlation, self-contained logic

For a long time, people's traditional concepts have always separated culture and economy, thinking that culture and economy are like cars running on two roads. In fact, there is an inseparable and close connection between culture and economy. Then, how we should look at the dialectical relationship between culture and economy to promote its better development, has become a prominent issue in front of us.

I. Culture provides spiritual impetus, value orientation and modern human resources for economic growth and development

In the three major systems of social politics, economy and culture, culture plays a guiding role, and socio-economic development must be supported by rational spirit and value navigation. This rational spiritual support is the advanced culture of the society, which reflects the spirit of modern industrial civilization, meets the needs of people's material and spiritual life, improves people's subjective consciousness and ideological and cultural qualities, and at the same time enhances people's values. Today, culture has permeated all processes and links of modern economic activities. In particular, universal cultural identity in reducing and overcoming trade conflicts and economic friction due to cultural differences, as well as in adapting to the trade environment and investment environment, have unique advantages that other systems do not have, and can play a unique role that other systems can not play.

Economic development is based on human resources, especially in the contemporary system of economic globalization, economic growth and development rely on high-level human resources becomes more prominent. Singapore's economic development has been called the "miracle" of the third world economy, although the "miracle" is the result of a variety of factors, but one thing is indisputable, that is, Singapore at the beginning of the founding of the country established the "education", "nationalization", "education", "education", "education", "education" and "education". The "miracle" is the result of a number of factors, but one thing is indisputable, that is, at the very beginning of the founding of the country, Singapore established the "education" and "science and technology" development strategy, and established a multi-cultural complementary and benign structure, forming a strong "cultural force". When we turn our attention to the domestic, it is not difficult to find this phenomenon, culture, especially traditional cultural resources are rich in the region is often also a higher level of regional productivity or regional economic development faster.

The importance of culture to the economy is far more than the real role of culture in the economic field and economic activities, but more importantly, culture also has a long and deep significance to the economy. It is foreseeable that the competition in the future world is not only the competition of economic advantage, but also the competition of cultural advantage.

Two, the development of culture depends on the development of the economy

In the process of mutual dependence, mutual promotion, *** with the development of culture and economy, the economy provides the material basis and guarantee for the survival, development and progress of culture.

When we look at the role of the economy on cultural development from the perspective of the economy, on the one hand, the economy provides a material basis and a rich source of creativity for the development and progress of culture. On the other hand, the economy provides impetus and circulation market for the development and progress of culture. The economic demand for culture is the driving force for the development and progress of culture. Engels once said that the need for production development is better than ten universities in promoting cultural development. Under the stimulating effect of the economy, culture generates a strong internal driving force to promote its own development and progress. At the same time, because culture and art have various aesthetic values that people need, and when this demand gradually increases, it will inevitably be materialized into products, which will be transformed into commodity value, and the price will be formed by the supply and demand relationship in the market, so that culture circulates in the market in the form of commodities. It is in this circulation process that cultural products realize their value and accumulate funds for their own reproduction in order to realize self-development. Obviously, we can see from here that "the level of economic development determines the scale of development of cultural construction".

It is precisely because the economy plays such an important role in the development and progress of culture that we have every reason to say that the root of cultural development lies in the economy. If the economy is developed, the culture based on it will be in a relatively strong position; on the contrary, if the economy is backward, the culture based on it will be in a relatively weak position. Only when we develop our economy, strengthen our national power, and change our economic base, can traditional culture overcome the strong Western culture. Therefore, the most important modernization, and also the first, is economic modernization, only on the basis of economic modernization, we can build political modernization, superstructure modernization, so as to establish a modern and strong culture with Chinese characteristics.

Undoubtedly, it is because the role of economy on culture is direct, and, the existence of this direct role is generally accepted by the people, so people in the process of social development, the first concern is necessarily the development of the economy, and firmly believe that only economic prosperity can promote the development and progress of culture.

Third, the negative correlation between cultural development and economic development

From the point of view of the process of social and historical development, culture and economy are always linked to each other, promote each other and **** the same development, however, the relationship between cultural development and economic development is not always the case, and there are times when the cultural development and economic development and even into a negative correlation, i.e., the cultural development and economic development are not "self-contained logic".

We note that a culturally developed economy alongside a culturally developed culture is likely to be very backward. We cannot simply equate cultural advantage with productivity advantage or economic advantage. Because culture as a potential form of productive forces into real productive forces, into economic advantage still need to go through many intermediaries and links.

At the same time, economic development can indeed promote the development of culture, however, like everything has two sides, the impact of economic development on culture in addition to the positive effects, there are also some negative effects. For example, the "fast-food" culture has gradually lowered people's level of cultural appreciation. It should be seen that economic development in promoting the scale of cultural construction continues to expand at the same time, but also objectively constrain the content and quality of its expansion.

The self-contained logic of economic development does not prove the self-contained logic of cultural development, just as the gradual development of productive forces from low to high does not mean that culture also develops gradually from low to high. The illogicality, or negative correlation, between cultural development and economic development is an indication of the complexity of the relationship between the two, which means that cultural prosperity does not mean economic prosperity, and likewise, economic development does not mean cultural development.

In summary, in order to better promote the development of society, we must correctly view the relationship between culture and economy as the two major wheels of human civilization development, that is, on the one hand, although the development of culture and economy have their own laws and characteristics, but they are dependent on each other, promote each other and *** with the development of the close relationship is indisputable, i.e., the economy has a fundamental role in culture, culture has a guiding role in the economy. The economy plays a fundamental role in culture, and culture plays a guiding role in the economy, and the two have interactive effects and develop in interaction. On the other hand, the non-self-logical nature of cultural and economic development requires that we should take the complexity of the relationship between culture and economy into full consideration when formulating social development policies, so as to promote the rapid, orderly and benign development of society.

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