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 Theory of Culture: A New Generalization

Abstract. The article comprehensively generalizes the author’s views on the nature of culture, its social functions and morphology, the basis of its historical stability and mechanisms of its historical changeability, as well as worldview basis of studying and interpreting culture. The author displays the ground for his scientific ideology.

Keywords. Culture, functions, structure, stability, changeability, scientific view.

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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