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Hypotheses:

THE THEORY OF CULTURE

E.A. Orlova. The anthropological foundations of scientific knowledge

 

Discussions:

IN SEARCH OF THE MEANING OF HISTORY AND CULTURE (A.Ya. Flier's section)

A.V. Kostin, A.Ya. Flier. Ternary functional model of culture (continued)

N.A. Khrenov. Russian culture at the turn of the XIX–XX centuries: the Gnostic "Renaissance" in the context of symbolism (continued)

V.M. Rozin. Some features of modern art

V.I. Ionesov. Memory of things in images and plots of cultural introspection

 

Analytics:

CULTURAL REFLECTIONS

A.Ya. Flier. Social and organizational functions of culture

M.I. Kozyakova. The Ancient cosmos and its evolution: ritual, spectacle, entertainment

N.A. Malshina. The post-non-classical paradigm in the study of the Russian cultural industry: A new type of rationality and value system

N.A. Khrenov. A Century later: the tragic experience of Soviet Culture (continued)


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Flier Andrey Yakovlevich 
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor,
Chief Research Worker 
Lykhachev Russian Research Institute 
for Cultural and Natural Heritage
e-mail: andrey.flier@yandex.ru

Culture as a System of Mediation Institutions

Abstract. The article discusses the mediation function of culture between man and ecological and social environment in which he lives and works. The paper also analyzes cultural mediation in the relationship between man and nature, people from the immediate social environment, society as a whole, professional environment, and world culture. Functions of culture as a regulator and limiter of variants of human practical behavior are systematized.

Keywords. Culture, man, nature, the immediate social environment, society, professional environment, humanity, mediation.

The article was prepared with the support of Russian Foundation for Humanities. Grant N 14-03-00035, “Cultural Regulation of Social Dynamics”.
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