Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Cultural and anthropological problem of Social Engineering (Methodological Problem at Modern Applied Culture Studies)

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2010 3 (1)
Authors
Koptzeva, Natalia P.
Contact information
Koptzeva, Natalia P. : Siberian Federal University; 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041 Russia, e-mail:
Keywords
Culture studies; cultural anthropology; «Culture Studies» course; A.R. Radcliff-Braun; historical and inductive methods of culture studies; functional and comparative method
Abstract

Today the level of culture studies makes researchers solve the problem of applied availability of these studies in Russian science. The object of all human and social sciences, as well as cultural anthropology, is social engineering and rational control over social processes and precognition of possible intended and unintended changes of social institutions on the basis of science. From the very start, cultural anthropology has posited itself as science able to create scientific apparatus for positive social control. Control over social processes based on science is a problem, which is going to last for centuries. But at present Russian culture studies are in danger of turning into one of the versions of the old scholastic ideology combining peripheral research areas. Today support of international standards at culture studies needs in a program of applied culture studies as a basis of the modern education at this sphere. The educational program at «culture studies» course is starting being realized at Siberian Federal University. It is urgent to adopt the international educational standards at this sphere of human and social studies from the very beginning of training of the future bachelors at culture studies. It is necessary to master the methods of study worked out at cultural anthropology in 20th - 21st centuries, for we could develop our own methods of culture studies applied in social control; and they are to become the basis of methods of study of cultural space important for the Russian society today. We suppose that the program of development of culture studies formulated by A.R. Radcliff-Braun, one of the founders of British social anthropology (along with B.K. Malinowski), is of special importance. The potency of functional and comparative method intended for modern culture studies is discussed, and the program of training of experts at applied culture studies is suggested in the article.

Pages
22-34
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https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/1540

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