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

The Balance of Social and Cultural Dynamics: Developing the Theory

Abstract. The article dwells upon an interaction of social and cultural factors of self-organization of communities. The author marks a domination of functional social differentiation in the historical development of human groups and their cultural consolidation, which determines the above process. The two differently directed trends productively compensate each other, which specifies the constructive character historical self-development.

Keywords: Communities and their historical self-organization, social differentiation, cultural consolidation, rotation of different trends.
 

The article is prepared with the support of the Russian Humanitarian Scientific Fund, grant № 15-03-00031 Cultural Regulation of Social Dynamics.

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