Current Problems and Priorities of the Cultural Policy in Russia in the Context of the Neotraditionalist Ideology

Abstract

State cultural policy has great impact in determining the content of mass consciousness, setting the boundaries of the social norm. The priorities of cultural policy are determined by its ideological foundations, which have become the subject of the analysis of this article. The research is based on the principle of historicism, since the concept of culture is ambiguous in its content and historical in its essence. The study of culture as a social phenomenon and a factor of social management correlate with the problem of state ideology formation, its indoctrination into the public consciousness and its implementation in practical forms. The materials of the study were the substantive provisions of the documents of strategic planning in the field of state cultural policy, understood from the standpoint of the theory of culture. Based on the analysis of the culture functions in society, the article characterizes the innovative potential of culture, which determines the transformation the way of life in the political, social, economic and technological spheres. The development of society, and with it cultural norms, has passed the stages of archaic and modern, entering the postmodern era. The evolution of socio-economic relations and cultural norms creates contradictions between tradition and modernization. The value-semantic foundations of the society development are caught between the Scylla of archaization and the Charybdis of anomie. The authors project this conflict on the semantic foundations of the state cultural policy in modern Russia, revealing the dialectic of continuity and innovation in the development of national culture. The author concludes that the strategy of reproduction of cultural norms dominates as a priority of the state culture policy. In this approach, the authors see risks for the effective performance of the culture of its functions in the postmodern era.

Keywords

• culture
• state cultural policy
• traditional society
• neotraditionalism
• modernization
• postmodern
• archaic