THEORETICAL, APPLIED AND SYNTHETIC METHODS OF STUDYING CULTURE AS A SOCIO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL SYSTEM
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The article provides an overview and offers a classification of modern methodological approaches in the field of cultural studies. The article helps to choose an appropriate methodological strategy for conducting cultural research. Cultural studies methods are classified into three types: theoretical, applied and synthetic. The article discusses the specificity, advantages and disadvantages of such methods as field research, an interdisciplinary approach involving sociological analysis, archaeological analysis, art analysis, psychological experiment for cultural studies, and also considers the methodology of structuralism, functionalism, hermeneutics and linguocultural studies.