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

Power and culture: self-organization of society according to the model of vertical hierarchy

Abstract. The article examines the main motivations of ordering social life and structuring society, as well as the formation of social consciousness, characteristic of political power and culture, and their commitment to the vertical hierarchical model of society organization and the forms of symbolic expression of this principle in culture.
Keywords: power, culture, social order, structuring of society, controlled and spontaneous self-ordering, hierarchy.
 

[1] See, for example: Anthropology of power. Vol. 1. Power in anthropological discourse. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg State University Publishing House, 2006. 493 p.
[2] Bocharov V. V. Sources of power // Anthropology of power, Vol. 1. Power in anthropological discourse, St. Petersburg: SPBU Publishing House, 2006. Pp. 14-48.
[3] Kradin N. N. Chiefdom: the current state and problems of studying // Early forms of political organization: from primitiveness to statehood. Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, 1995. Pp. 11-61.
[4] Dolnik V. R. Naughty child of the biosphere. Conversations about human behavior in the company of birds, animals and children. Moscow: Petroglyph, 2009. 352 p.
[5] Lem S. Filozofia Przypadku. Krakow: Wydawanctwo literackie, 1968.
[6] Grigorieva T. P. Japanese art tradition. Moscow: Main editorial office of Oriental literature publishing house "Science", Institute of Oriental studies Of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1979. 368 p.
[7] Trubetskov D. I., Mchedlova E. S., Krasichnikov L. V. Introduction to the theory of self-organization of open systems. 2nd ed. Moscow: Fizmatlit, 2005. 212 p.
[8] Ilyushechkin V. P. Theory of stage development of society. Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, 1996. 406 p.
[9] Table of ranks of the Russian Federation [Electronic resource]. URL: https://forma-odezhda.ru/encyclopedia/tabel-o-rangah-rossijskoj-federacii/ (accessed: 11.7.2019).
[10] See, for example: Dolnik V. R. Decree. op.; Tinbergen, Nikolas. Social Behavior in Animals. London: Methuen, 1953.
[11] Rawls J. A Theory of Justice. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1971.
[12] Democracy: State and Society. Textbook. Moscow: Institute of pedagogical systems, 1995. 302 p.; Democracy / Ed. by S. V. Sirotkin, Moscow: Links, 2001. 126 p.