Cultural diversity: individual behavioral stereotypes and sociocultural standards. Measuring the immeasurable

In December 2014, the Decree of the President of Russia approved the foundations of the state cultural policy, which set guidelines for the activities of the cultural subsystem of society for 15–20 years. A fundamental replacement of the paradigm of cultural policy is envisaged, which will be accompanied by a change of mythologies that have a significant impact on the formation of cultural policy instruments. For Russia, this is already the second attempt to carry out a sociocultural transformation through the controlled development of culture. The first was undertaken in the period from 1917 to 1991. The article attempts to analyze the key factors leading to the need to change the paradigm approach to cultural policy.

Sociocultural transformations as the basis for periodization of European culture: cultural and philosophical analysis

The goal of this research consists in demonstration of transitional periods in the dynamics of European culture, defined as sociocultural transformation, as the basis for its periodization. The article indicates that namely sociocultural transformations, i.e. transitional eras, play a crucial role in the historical-cultural process. In the dynamics of European (Euro-Atlantic) culture, the author determines the three sociocultural transformations: late Hellenism, Renaissance and Reformation, avant-garde and postmodernity. They divide the cultural continuum of the countries of European (Euro-Atlantic) civilization into three stages of gradual development: antiquity, medieval, and modern European. The key research method is the philosophical interpretation of the knowledge on cultural heritage of the European (and later Euro-Atlantic) culture. It is underlined that sociocultural transformations manifest as a condition for the creative process in its classical meaning (emergence, consolidation, and distribution of the new), and the key for cultural continuity, although the contemporaries often consider it as “shifting away from the norm”. In the intervals (sociocultural transformations) of gradualism (cultural systems) underlies the guarantee of continuity of the historical-cultural process.

Cultural diversity: individual behavioral stereotypes and sociocultural standards. Measuring the immeasurable

In December 2014, the Decree of the President of Russia approved the foundations of the state cultural policy, which set guidelines for the activities of the cultural subsystem of society for 15–20 years. A fundamental replacement of the paradigm of cultural policy is envisaged, which will be accompanied by a change of mythologies that have a significant impact on the formation of cultural policy instruments. For Russia, this is already the second attempt to carry out a sociocultural transformation through the controlled development of culture. The first was undertaken in the period from 1917 to 1991. The article attempts to analyze the key factors leading to the need to change the paradigm approach to cultural policy.

The origins of postmodernism as a sociocultural transformation: counterculture of the 1960s – early 1970s

This article reviews postmodernism as a transitional stage in the dynamics of modern culture in the countries of Euro-Atlantic civilization. Such transitional stages the author defines as sociocultural transformations. Postmodernism is the finale of the current stage of sociocultural transformation, which according to the author started in the last third XIX century with the avant-garde culture. The article traces the impact of counterculture of the 1960s – early 1970s upon establishment of the postmodern paradigm. It is demonstrated that counterculture manifested as the sociocultural background that promoted the consolidation of postmodernism in culture of the countries of Euro-Atlantic civilization. The logic of studying sociocultural transformations suggests the application of interdisciplinary approach. The key research method is the philosophical interpretation. The main conclusion consists in proving the hypothesis on the background, sociocultural impact of counterculture of the 1960s – early 1970s upon the consolidation of postmodernism as the sociocultural transformation. The author offers an original approach towards periodization of the European (Euro-Atlantic) culture, which distinguishes the corresponding periods in its continuum through the prism of sociocultural transformations. A detailed analysis of the impact of counterculture upon postmodern statement is provided.

Semantic vectors of sociocultural transformations: cultural and philosophical analysis

The subject of this research is the conditions, under which in the transitional periods that are defined by the author as “sociocultural transformation”, is carried out the selection of cultural-dominant characteristics forming the essence of the next gradual stage in the dynamics of culture. These conditions are determined based on the analysis of the dynamics of culture of the European (Euro-Atlantic) civilization. The author considered such transitional periods as Late Hellenism, Renaissance and Reformation, avant-garde and postmodernism, which represent the sociocultural transformation between Antiquity, Middle Ages and Modern Age respectively. The method of philosophical interpretation of the cultural phenomena of European (Euro-Atlantic) civilization became the key method for this research. The main conclusion of this work consists in description of  such semantic vectors of sociocultural transformation as relativization of meanings, paralyzation of meanings, principle of doubt and uncertainty, and separation with the preceding cultural tradition. These semantic vectors orient towards upward tendency of cultural development.

Archaization of the Russian Society in the Focus of Scientific Research Practices and Methodological Parameters of Research

The article analyzes the scientific potential of the study of such an important phenomenon for the modern world as archaization, on the basis of which the author's methodological and conceptual space for the socio-philosophical study of the archaization of Russian society is formed. The concept of the plurality of modernity, and therefore the alternatives to national modernization, is recognized as a conceptual position. In the framework of the proposed concept, archaization, traditionalization and modernization are considered as modes of tradition - a substance of the sociocultural system that ensures reproduction and preservation of the society’s culture. Under the influence of socio-cultural transformation, the tradition can take the form of these processes, depending on the degree of destruction of traditional foundations and bases of society's life and the adequacy of the implemented innovations, their organic socio-cultural roots. Archaization as a modus of tradition, in turn, under the influence of sociocultural transformation, can develop in the format (modus) of rearchaization and neoarchaization as a result of interaction with the processes of traditionalization and modernization. At the intersection of the development trajectories of modernization and traditionalization processes, a modus of development called neotraditionalization is formed. The modes of archaization (neoarchaization and rearchization) affect the development of social processes in different ways, and therefore archaization is not considered as a uniquely regressive process.

Narrating as an Answer to Sociocultural Challenges

The narrative typologies presented previously are juxtaposed with the principal characteristics of sociocultural transformation in this chapter. The findings reveal how these affect the network actors’ storytelling, but without dominating the narrative. Social developments come up against headstrong subjects who make use of their ability to select, differentiate, and reflect.

The Narrative Space of the Internet

Undergoing a sociocultural transformation in the course of their development, digital networks are analysed as further parameters in the narratives of network actors and bloggers. The following structural characteristics are particularly relevant for narratives: interconnectedness, interactivity, globality, multimediality, and virtuality. These characteristics are then part and parcel of the mise-en-scène of narrative in digital networks.

SOCIOCULTURAL TRANSFORMATION PROBLEMS OF THE MIGRANTS WORLDVIEW IN THE CASE OF UKRAINIAN-GREEK RELATIONS

An attempt was made to retrospect the problem and to identify relevant factors of social adaptation. The dialectic of human acculturation through “social shock” is shown - from a feeling of euphoria in a new country to certain disappointments and an awareness of the need for fundamental personal changes. The idea of the “strategy of comfort” of an individual is proposed in combination of his own identity and the acquisition of the advantages of a foreign culture through the qualitative study of a foreign language, literary translations, and the “use” of communicative clusters of a new social space. The leading role in the sociocultural adaptation of Ukrainians of Greece to the Orthodox Church and diasporas is defined, which introduce educational work in the following areas: “diagnosing the situation”, “explaining the prolongation of the adaptation process”, “correcting anxiety or panic moods”, “cultural association” through certain social practices, performances and artistic and creative activities.