Kostina Anna Vladimirovna,
Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Culturology, Professor,
Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Culture and Art,
Head Department of Philosophy, Cultural and Political Sciences,
Moscow University for the Humanities
e-mail: anna_kostina@inbox.ru

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

Where does history attract culture? From the "society of concerters" to the "rehearsing society" (Start)

Abstract. The article examines the historical evolution of culture, the change in its system-forming parameters and typological characteristics from epoch to epoch, to periods of historical development. The basic fundamental laws determining the vector of development of culture and the main tendencies of its historical evolution are singled out.

Keywords. Culture, history, society, the vector of evolution, development trends, patterns of cultural variability.
 

[1] The authors are sincerely grateful to Prof. G.V. Grinenko, with her critical remarks that helped in the work on this forecast.
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[5] The authors are well aware that both the separation by epochs and the allocated characteristics and the content of different characteristics are highly subjective, reflecting only the author's point of view. But it's a method. Let others try to offer their option, and we will be willing to accept it if it proves to be more reasonable.
[6] About this, See: Eco, Umberto, A passo di gambero. Guerre calde e populismo mediatico. Milano: Bompiani, 2006 (Eco U. Full back! "Hot wars" and populism in the media. Moscow: Eksmo, 2007. 592 P.).
[7] In this sense the USSR and Germany at Nazis were completely theocratic states.
[8] Let us remember that the Western European cultural typology, brought to Russia by the reforms of Peter the Great, became stable only when the Russian aristocratic culture was developed on its base with the already adapted Western European Forms.
[9] According to some researchers, the process of becoming a "new tradition" has already begun. See: Surova Е.E. Ritual daily and identity// Paradigm: Philosophical-Cultural Almanac. Vol. 10. S.-Petersburg: St. Petersburg State University, 2008. P. 131-141.
[10] About the characteristics of traditional culture see for details: Kostina A.V. National culture - ethnic culture - mass culture: "Balance of interests" in modern society. M.: URSS, 2009. 214 p.
[11] It seems that the current sharp prevalence of the need for physical violence as a tool for management is due precisely to the complete disappearance (isolation) of custom as a social regulatory system.