GENERAL REVIEW The Method of the Study

2. GENERAL REVIEW

Klukhhon 1949:35 says that culture is a pattern for life which is created in the history of the implied eimplisit or not implicit explicit, rational or irrational that there is at all times as a potential guideline for human baheviour. Herkovist 1952 says that culture is as a mixed superorganic or are hereditary from generation fixed continued and sustainable living in it even though human alternated, because the process of birth and death. Koentjaraningrat 1985:180 says that culture is the whole system of ideas, actions, result of human work in the framework human life that is made human own. Andreas Eppink 1985 says that culture is containing whole notion of social values, social norms, knowledge, and overall structures social, religious, and etc. Tylor 1871:1 says that The culture is a complex whole, which it contains knowledge, beliefe, art, morals, laws, customs, and other skills gained a person as a member of the community. Selo Soemardjan 1985 says that Culture is the means of work, taste, and the copyright community. Herritage 1987 Dictionary says that culture is as a whole from the behavior pattern that is sent through a social life, religious, institutional, and all the work and the human mind of a human group. Universitas Sumatera Utara Roucel says that culture is a way of life that was developed by a community to meet basic needs for survival, his descendants continue, and manage their social experience. Hassan Shadily 1975 says that culture is the all human result from socialization, contains of actions against and by our fellow human beings as members of society are intellect, confidence, art, morals, laws, and customs. Raymond Williams 1961:16 says that culture is all the life, material, intellectual asn spiritual. Al Krueber 1958:582-583 says that culture is system of ideas, drafts, and results of human work to fulfill their lifes by learn. Nostrand 1981:51 says that culture is attitude and belief, the way of think, behavior, and remember together by community members. Karo is a name of an ethnic who live in Indonesia and manely live in one regency Karo high land Kabupaten Karo. The society of Karo usually do the ceremony of Opening a New House. Universitas Sumatera Utara

3. BACKGROUND OF KARO PEOPLE