ON THE QUESTION OF THE DEFINITION OF THE CONCEPT OF «SOCIO-CULTURAL SPACE»

Abstract

The relevance of the study is justified by the fact that in modern scientific literature there is no common understanding of the phenomenon of socio-cultural space. Works on the development of this concept in modern society is not enough. Often in scientific research it is used without definition and justification. Purpose. The article is devoted to the analysis of the main problems arising in the definition and application of the concept of “socio-cultural space” in research. Methodology. The basis of the research methodology is an analytical review of scientific literature devoted to the development and application of the concept of “socio-cultural space”, the method of dialectics. The theoretical significance of the work lies in the fact that it denotes the problems that need to be taken into account when using the category of “socio-cultural space” in modern studies of culture and society. Results. The results of the work are that the authors, having analyzed the main approaches to the definition and application of the concept of socio-cultural space in the scientific literature, have identified a number of problems faced by researchers: not the correct application of this concept as a universal, all encompassing categories that do not require justification for its use; the unjustified shift of emphasis between the basic concepts of “cultural” and “social”, which leads to a change in the meaning of the concept of “socio-cultural space”, and, consequently, to errors in the application of socio-cultural methodology; the ambiguous meaning of the concept of “socio-cultural space” makes it difficult to apply this category in the study of the phenomena of the information society.

Keywords

• социокультурное пространство
• социальное пространство
• культурное пространство
• пространство
• реальность
• информационная культура
• информационное общество
• культура