Вестник Майкопского государственного технологического университета (Mar 2023)
Mentality and symbolic nature of culture
Abstract
The results of the analysis of the interrelations of phenomena of mentality, language and cultural symbolism have been presented. In this series the language occupies a special place, since its structures are an indispensable component of the other two phenomena. The language, which serves as the basis of a symbolic component of mentality, reproduces cultural symbols and at the same time determines its content. Actually the ideal matter exists for a person, primarily in linguistic forms. Attention is paid to the interrelation of the concepts of “mentality”, “way of thinking”, which have come to our culture from the Western sociology, and the Russia specific concepts of “spirit”, “spirituality”. The interrelationship between the concepts of “mentality”, “cultural code” and “sociocode” has been considered. The aspect of taking into account the symbolic and sign nature of culture has been studied in detail. An attempt has been made to study the mentality in the transition to the coming information civilization with a network structure for organizing communications based on global computer networks. Trends in the field of cultural research associated with the emergence of such phenomena as information and intellectual culture, mosaic mass culture, elite culture, culture of virtual reality and identifying their relationship, interpenetration and interaction with folk spiritual culture have been denoted. Significant changes in mentality associated with the destruction of an integral sign system of culture under the influence of mass media and virtual reality have been assessed.
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