Orlova Elna Alexandrovna,
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor,
Director of Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
State Academy of Slavic Culture
e-mail: elna.orlova@mail.ru

Components of Modern Sociology of Culture

Abstract. The article is dedicated to the current state of sociology of culture at its initial stage of development and includes theoretical background, subject area, objects of study, as well as unsolved problems specific to this field of sociological research.

Key words. Culture, macrosociology, microsociology, sociocultural dynamics, social reality, sociology of culture, structuralism, structural functionalism, phenomenology.

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