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The understanding of individual freedom and its realization in modern Russia is based on the Constitution, but is not limited to it. Public opinion, social norms affect people’s perceptions of dos and don'ts. Under the frame of empirical research, conducted in September 2016 at RUDN University (Moscow), Russian students were interviewed in order to determine their view of life about processes taking place in the modern Russian society in the context of individual liberty. Thus, the implementation of the individual...

The social dimension of state culture and art at the regional level is an important task of the state and involves the assessment of the quality of services once a year for several cultural organizations. We propose a unified model of independent assessment of the quality of services of organizations of culture using the automated information system of accounting of three metrics: opinions of recipients of services, and the availability of information on two official websites of the organization. The results of th...

The development of the attractiveness for the Compostela Ways for thirty years corresponds to an important socio-cultural phenomenon. After having given some markers of the success of the Compostela Ways (number of pilgrims, etc.), we try to highlight the different motivations of the participants. We propose a typology of these different “pilgrims” or walkers. By analyzing situations of information and communication, we will study the aspects of identity and the relationship with others but also with oneself (bett...

The aim of this study is to identify the educational function of art criticism. The importance of the problem is in unrealized educational potential of art criticism in the field of publication activity, in the need for clear principles of creating the educational effect in the texts of art critics. Historiography of art is represented by the works of such European scholars as Hans Sedlmayr, Germain Bazin. In Russian historiography this issue was explored by scholars V. S. Turchin, V. P. Shestakov and V. G. Arslan...

One of the most famous futuristic dystopia in the literature of the twentieth century is the novel of a British prose writer and essayist Aldous Huxley. "Brave New World" (1932) is the vision of a society that has reached a state of total organization and has achieved the ideal of universal happiness. One of the many tools of the social control in the hands of the authorities is the programmed "synthetic music", which meticulously fills every space. A similar image of background music appears in George Orwell's no...

Russia is making efforts to reconsider its policy and achieve leadership in innovation and technology sector. A mechanism that is called to fulfill these ideas is the National Technology Initiative (NTI), that seeks to identify the most perspective technologies and implement necessary administrative and legislative changes. This project is concerned with creating new businesses and technological agendas, concurrently transforming and modernizing public opinions and attitudes about the future of the country and soc...

The relevance of the research subject is proved by transformation of social communication under the influence of social and technological progress factors. In our opinion, this process requires studying, as it directly influences public consciousness, creates new images of reality, determines the framework of interaction between the person and the social environment. We draw on M. McLuhan's ideas about the dominating role of communication in public relations, concepts of the sociotechnical imaginaries after Sh. Ja...

The present contribution wants to show the main features and the focus points of the recent evolution of the Italian railway, so to introduce the reasons underneath its present “high speed” and its perspectives of development in the European space. On a methodological point of view, this essay is based on normative and quantity data concerning the Italian and European situation. This give us the chance to better comprehend the reasons between the produced connection and the railway system of each member state, ess...

Because of some, ideological rather than scientific, reasons, explanations of human behavior referring to culture as an all-encompassing nomos and as an axionormative matrix shaping all individuals, let alone those accounts referring to the genetic influence, are treated by many social and cultural scientist as reductionistic, deterministic, depersonalizing and reifying. These epithets are subsumed under relatively new term “essentialism” which has become, as Steven Pinker notices, “just about the worst thing you ...

The objective of the text is to examine the cultural reception of texts on values as good, which are often described as universal. Texts were carried out by representativeness of many cultures using the method of transformative drama while at the University of Pécs. Students from Russia, Kazakhstan, Haiti, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, China, Mongolia, Korea, Laos, Hungary, Egypt, Syria, Cameroon, Mexico, Indonesia, in a dramatic cutscene illustrated, how is the concept of good understood in their culture.

{Purpose}. Advertising contributes to the emergence of a new reality, characterized by increasing the integrity of the variety of different cultures, traditions, religions and values. Modern social relations and globalization processes actualize the question of identity of any culture. Modern advertising involves the context of another culture, appealing to basic ideals of their culture, taking into account cultural identity of perception. The purpose of the research - to analyze the phenomenon of advertising in t...

Only intensified technological acceleration is capable to provide sustainable development in conditions when annually the number of consumers of culture increases almost by 100 million people. Effective methods of art have to change essentially in these conditions. The analysis of the main lines of topical art process allows to conclude that the replication becomes a basis of preservation and expansion of experience, and the art sphere turns into space of copies. It is possible to see rather clear tendency to fadi...

Social networks are a noteworthy opportunity to build a more caring and responsible society, a practice that is assimilated by learning to use the Web in a conscious way. The media competence takes the form of expertise both to active participation to the Web and to society. The focus is on the need to acquire the know-how to exploit the media, with particular reference to social networks, in a clever way so as to meke them intelligent instruments (Rheingold, 2013). From an educational point of view, social networ...

This article presents the thesis about consolidation of regional identity of the republic. Development of regional identity raises region competitiveness. Materials and methods: the theoretically methodological basis of a research is compiled by works of national philosophers, culturologists and historians. Empirical material for article compiled in the Russian researches. The purpose and contents of article determined the choice of methodological acceptances: principle of historicism, logical methods. Results: th...