Cultural studies

LECTURE 5
TYPES OF SOCIO-CULTURAL WORLDS

P H D , A S S I S TA N T- P R O F E S S O R

Z H A N AT D O S K H O Z H I N A
Socio-cultural world
SCW is a society characterized by specific type of culture
Main features:

General informational and semiotic environment;

Unlike national cultures, they do not necessarily arise on the basis of ethnic community
and may cover different nations and countries;

Isolation from the external environment.

Main types of SCW
Historical
Regional
types of Civilizations
cultures
culture
special forms of
superethnic cultural society differing in
changing each other communities, created such characteristics as
epochs in the in certain spiritual life,
development process geographical area for techniques,
a long historical time economics and
religion

Latin American Sumerian

Antique world
culture civilization
Historical types of culture: Primitive culture

The longest
Non-
period in Syncretism
writtenness
human history

Nonverbal form Magical

of Rituals character of
communication actions

Absence of
Mythological
individual self-
Taboo consciousness
consciousness
Historical types of culture: Antique culture

Unified religious
and Trade and Public political
mythological shipping life
system

Alphabetical
Craftwork Military art
writing

Philosophy Law Science

Continued: Antique culture

Feelings and Mind

Fate and Fight (“Ananke” and “Agon”)
Sensory-aesthetic
perception Sociality and individuality
"Evil Rock" will be to
The authority of the persecute anyone who
mind dares to resist their fate Lack of policies is a sign
Rationalism and logic of barbarism
Man as a hero
Abstract thinking Citizen status
Spirit of fight
Socrates rejected priority
social over individual
Historical types of culture: Middle Age culture

Old traditions of Greco-Roman

Spirit Christianity
of barbarism
culture
Continued: Middle Age culture

Irrationalism Mysticism Ignorance

Dominating
Cult of
of collective Church
asceticism
consciousness

“Crimes
Religious
against Heretics
education
Faith”
Historical types of culture: Renaissance

High Renaissance
“Trecento”
“Quattrocento” “Gold Age”
(Petrarch,
(Leonardo da Vinci) (Raphael and
Boccaccio, Giotto)
Michelangelo)

Renaissance ideas
go beyond Italy “Cincvecento”
(German, Spain, (Titian, Caravaggio)
Netherlands)
Continued: Renaissance

ART Humanism Person

Aristocrat of Choice own

Elitist
spirit fate

Destruction
Transit
of ascetic Reformation
culture
moral
Historical types of culture: New Time
(New History) culture
Philosophy
Science without Intellect
scholastic

Contact and
Secular culture Multilingualism interaction of
cultures

Authority of
Industrialization Utilitarianism
knowledge
Historical types of culture: Modern culture
Information New art
Mass culture
society movements

Technical Repressive
“Megamachine”
progress culture

Pluralism and
unification
Continued: Modern culture
1. Changed Engineering Philosophy
2. The minimum price is $ 350 instead of $ 1,000
3. Refusal of extravagances
4. Division of labour principle
5. Introduced $5 per shift instead of $2.34
6. Refusal of qualified workers
7. Employees had to lead a very healthy lifestyle
8. Refusal of providers - all parts were produced by the
company
9. 1.5 hours to assemble the chassis instead of 12 hours
10. The first large-scale conveyor - 1913 year
Continued: Modern culture

Socio- Increase in
SOCIAL Movement Information
biological life
mobility options diversity
security expectancy
Historical types of culture: conclusion
Types of cultures Main beliefs
Primitive culture Syncretism - Myths
Antique culture Myths – Religion – Art - Philosophy
Middle Age culture Religion
Renaissance Art
New Time culture Philosophy
Modern culture Science