Popov, E. A. What Does the Sociology of Culture Study?

Abstract: Determination of the object field is still a topical issue for the sociology of culture due to the fact that the group of social and humanitarian studies has been significantly expanded lately. This group of sciences study culture and the processes of its social determination. Consequently, the object field of the sociology of culture has been limited which generally lowered the heuristic potential of the results of empirical and theoretical social researches. Distain or refusal from the analysis of ontological characteristics of cultural development often leads to hasty and insufficiently augmented conclusions. The article reveals possible contradictions arising in this sphere and some ways to overcome those

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