The proper world of culture
Everyday life, acting as the main and necessary prerequisite for sociocultural studies of the life world as a special form of cognition of human existence, should now require further study from the standpoint of a culturological analysis of the relationship between the everyday and the extraordinary, the relationship between the everyday and the unique-event layers of culture in the context of the specific historical conditions of that or another region or country as a whole. One of the important components of everyday life are things that are defined as objects of material reality, with relative independence and stability of existence, they are created by man primarily to perform a utilitarian function. For things, as well as for culture as a whole, dualism is characteristic, because a thing is bifunctional in nature, it can satisfy both material and spiritual needs of a person, that is, it has a material and semiotic-informational existence. In every thing created or acquired by a person, a person can put a certain meaning, in turn, a thing can also have a culture-forming effect on a person. A thing that has no meaning is just material, matter becomes a scarf only if it is called that and used for a specific purpose. Everyday things perform primarily a utilitarian function, then a symbolic one.