CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION: INTERACTION AND RELATIONSIP IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

The relevance of this study is related to the need for a deeper understanding of the threat of culture leveling in social and spiritual life, the crisis of values of humanism as a product of scientific and rational thinking, free thought and creative beginnings of man. Modern civilization is characterized by an anthropological crisis: the loss of faith in mankind, whose activities, on the one hand, has created an extremely rich scientific production, technological, cultural opportunities world (smart-society and information society), and on the other, has caused global contradictions which development calls into question of mankind existence. The article analysis 9 civilization branches identifying their main cultural features which define their essence; the article substantiates civilization division according to the cultural principal and characterizes every civilization branch identifying the main cultural specific point of the socium. It is defined, that the study of historical waves of progress of human civilization requires in-depth study of the essence of modern civilizations and their culture. However, in the scientific and philosophical literature, the concept of civilization is still used in various semantic meanings - and as a form of existence of living beings endowed mind; and as a synonym for culture in general and a certain degree of development material and spiritual culture in particular; and as a fairly independent localized in space and time hierarchical holistic socio-historical formations. The purpose of the study is to conceptualize main cultural features of civilazations which define their essence in modern world. The objectives of the study are: to analyze 9 civilization branches identifying their main cultural features which define their essence and to substantiates civilization division according to the cultural principal which characterizes every civilization branch identifying the main cultural specific point of the socium. The result of the study. In this research, we have identified 9 civilizational branches of the modern world, formed on the principle of common individual, special values and culture and have a single main social need. The used methodology is justified - a set of methods of axiological, synergistic, cultural, necessary for deep penetration into the essence of these phenomena. The practical value of the study has stimulated scientific discussions at international and national scientific and practical conferences and developed reseaches in culture and civilization topic