Title of the article:

INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND SYSTEM APPROACH AS METHODOLOGICAL BASES IN CULTURE STUDIES

Author(s):

Maria N. Zhilenko

Information about the author/authors

Maria N. Zhilenko — PhD in Culturology, A. N. Kosygin Russian State University (Technologies. Design. Art), Institute of Slavic Culture, Khibinsky dr., 6, 129337 Moscow, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1196-4935. E-mail: zhylenko@mail.ru

Section

Theory and history of culture

Year

2020

Volume

Vol. 58

Pages

pp. 101-109

Received

August 25, 2020

Date of publication

December 28, 2020

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2020-58-101-109

Index UDK

008

Index BBK

71.0

Abstract

Culturology as a new scientific discipline is notable for its special — interdisciplinary and systematic approach to culture studies. This methodological peculiarity is closely connected with the circumstances in which culturology appeared as well as with the needs of science. The field of culture studies was created by V. Ostwald who designed it as a pinnacle of scientific knowledge about man. A. Bely who appreciated the idea wrote that it was essential for a culturologist to be a poet, a philosopher, a historian and an ethnologist. This combination makes it possible to combine rational research with emotional understanding of culture. Interdisciplinarity of culture studies is also determined by the logic of scientific development. The emergence of culturology signifies a transition from disciplinary approach to interdisciplinarity. The latter considers interaction of the elements in the cultural system. In this respect scientific methodological adjacency is fundamental.

Keywords

culture, culturology, methods of research, system approach, interdisciplinarity.

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