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 Structure of Culture-2.
Culture as a Subject of Scientific Knowledge

Abstract. The article touches upon the structure of culture, being formed on the ground of its being studied by certain sciences. It allows to pinpoint four system-forming processes, such as formation of the system of values, spatiotemporal localization of cultural characteristics, development of culture symbolizing techniques, dynamics of changeability of culture. Due to it a possibility to correct views on social functioning of culture appears.

Keywords. Culture, culture structuring, sciences studying culture, formation of the system of values, culture localization, culture symbolizing, dynamics of changeability of culture, choice between good and evil, social space orientation.
 

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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