近年来,人们开始从文化视角来研究、审视档案与档案工作,并取得了一批成果。但是文化本身所具有的深邃性似乎尚未被人们所真正把握,而这恰恰是我们探寻档案工作发展与社会文化的关系时需要着重解读的关键性课题。文化本质问题,涵盖了各种有形的文化产品,导致文化产品多样性的原因,正确解释文化的差异性等等。事实上,我们平时所看到的各具特色的文化产品只不过是文化的载体,它反映的是文化的表象。这些具有纷繁个性的文化表现形式均来自于文化的深层,是由文化的本质决定的。文化直接作用于人的心理,影响着人们的思维方式与行为方式,从而使人类的思维与 In recent years, people began to study and examine archival and archival work from a cultural perspective and achieved a number of achievements. However, the profoundness of culture itself seems to have not been really mastered by people, and this is exactly the key issue that we should study intensively when we explore the relationship between the development of archival work and social culture. The issue of cultural essence covers all kinds of tangible cultural products, the reasons leading to the diversity of cultural products, and the correct interpretation of cultural differences. In fact, the distinctive cultural products we usually see are merely cultural carriers, which reflect the appearance of culture. These cultural manifestations with many individualities come from the deep culture and are determined by the essence of culture. Culture directly affects people’s psychology, affecting people’s way of thinking and behavior, so that human thinking and