Social Reality as Viewed by a Culturologist

The article is written with the support of the Russian Humanitarian Scientific Fund’s grant “Cultural regulation of social dynamics” (15-03-00031)

Abstract. The article covers the nature and structure of social reality in terms of the general theory of culture, as well as of cultural and industrial possibilities of the system of developing society, man, cultural artifacts, cultural knowledge. The author focuses on analyzing communicative nature of culture.

Keywords. Social reality, zone of social indetermination, zone of culture, communication, cultural production of society, man, artifacts, knowledge.

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