| Issue |
SHS Web of Conferences
Volume 28, 2016
RPTSS 2015 – International Conference on Research Paradigms Transformation in Social Sciences 2015
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| Article Number | 01130 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20162801130 | |
| Published online | 15 June 2016 | |
Sense variability and typology of cultures
Tomsk Polytechnic University, 634050 Lenin ave., 30, Tomsk, Russia
a Corresponding author: lankinvg@mail.ru
The article is concerned with the problem of justification of cultural (civilizational) typological diversity, which is being analyzed in the framework of variant types and meaning-making methods. Authors attempt to prove the leading role of these methods in shaping cultures’ idiosyncrasies, as well as a specific course of their evolution, and sustainability as culture-transforming programs. In the article, the criteria of distinguishing historical culture types set in the XIX-XX centuries by the most influential civilizational concepts are analyzed, and a new criterion is proposed. This is the criterion of the meaning-making method which is considered the most applicable to describe the core of any culture as an integrity of both experimental and textual ways of human existence re-examination. A number of culture (civilization) types were used as examples; the article observes how the key meaning-making model sculpts the civilization as a unique entity and defines it.
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