DOI: 10.7256/2454-0757.2016.8.20172

Abstract: The subject of this research is the evolution of attitudes upon the phenomenon of mass culture within the framework of the Russian cultural and philosophical discourse of the XIX-XXI centuries. The author considers the presented concepts from the perspective of their historical conditionality, differentiation, paradigm, and effectiveness. Special attention is paid to the modern status of the problem. Without the dedicated, detailed, and methodologically-oriented determination of boundaries and conceptual cultural layers, the further development of the Russian scientific thought alongside the more efficient existence of Russia itself is impossible in the modern circumstances. Due to this fact, this research is based on the theoretical constructs and reasoning of the phenomenon of mass culture within the Russian philosophy and culturology. The scientific novelty first and foremost consists in the fact that analytics does not focus on a certain stage of cultural reflection of the phenomenon, but is built on the gradual (including comparative) understanding of its specificity in the context of pre-terminological and precisely terminological periods that cover just over 200 years.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0625.2016.5.20170

Abstract: The subject of this article is the possibility and objectivity of the systems approach applied to the identification of the ontological essence of the phenomenon of mass culture that is understood by the author primarily as a form of the historical development of fundamental culture, systemic modification of the whole fixing the way to connect its separate structures with each other as well as the coherence of cultural systems depending on their functions and purposes in the movement of culture across space and time taking into account the relationship with other systems (people, society, nature). In this regard, the main scientific and theoretical basis of the article includes cultural and philosophic views of the famous Russian scientist M.S. Kagan expressed in his fundamental work "Philosophy of Culture" (1996). Noteworthy that activity grounds of culture relate to its iconic apperception and all of its space relates to the global semantic structure of subjects, objects, outcomes, processes, institutions that are also in one way or another reflected in a significant number of researches (for example, the interpretation of culture by E.A. Baller, V.P. Vizgin, V.E. Davidovich, Yu.А. Zhdanov, V.J. Kelle, Yu.M. Lotman, M.K. Mamardashvili, E.S. Markarian, A.A. Pilipenko, I.G. Yakovenko, etc.). This creates a syncretical research organum designated not just to identify the fact of culture itself but also to reveal the structural semantic grounds that define its multi-dimensional existences. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that proving the idea of the need to conceptually establish the limits of the systems cultural references within the framework of its diachronic and synchronic grounds, the author makes an attempt to clarify the historical importance and purpose of the phenomenon of mass culture by the means of the systems approach. The author also clarifies terms 'mass culture' and 'masses'. 

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0625.2016.4.20169

Abstract: The subject of this article is the possibility and objectivity of the systems approach applied to the identification of the ontological essence of the phenomenon of mass culture that is understood by the author primarily as a form of the historical development of fundamental culture, systemic modification of the whole fixing the way to connect its separate structures with each other as well as the coherence of cultural systems depending on their functions and purposes in the movement of culture across space and time taking into account the relationship with other systems (people, society, nature). In this regard, the main scientific and theoretical basis of the article includes cultural and philosophic views of the famous Russian scientist M.S. Kagan expressed in his fundamental work "Philosophy of Culture" (1996). Noteworthy that activity grounds of culture relate to its iconic apperception and all of its space relates to the global semantic structure of subjects, objects, outcomes, processes, institutions that are also in one way or another reflected in a significant number of researches (for example, the interpretation of culture by E.A. Baller, V.P. Vizgin, V.E. Davidovich, Yu.А. Zhdanov, V.J. Kelle, Yu.M. Lotman, M.K. Mamardashvili, E.S. Markarian, A.A. Pilipenko, I.G. Yakovenko, etc.). This creates a syncretical research organum designated not just to identify the fact of culture itself but also to reveal the structural semantic grounds that define its multi-dimensional existences. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that on the basis of the unity of the world of culture, the author attempts her own gnoseological construction and logical analysis, in particular, develops the model of culture, defines algorithms of its actions from the standpoint of the production of cultural values within three components of the system (institutional, procedural, and productive), and describes the specificity of cultural consumption as a way of desobjectivation of cultural "goods" expressed in cultural patterns and artifacts.