WOMEN IN THE SOVIET UNION

Author(s): Lilith Hayaapetian / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

Women born in the 20th century were different from theirgrandmothers. Throughout the world women raised their voices, as they sought toprove to men and to themselves that they deserved equality with men in allaspects of life. The Soviet Union was Women born in the 20th century were different from theirgrandmothers. Throughout the world women raised their voices, as they sought toprove to men and to themselves that they deserved equality with men in allaspects of life. The Soviet Union was one of the first countries in the World toequate men and women in rights and provide the same opportunities for bothsexes. Yet it is to be mentioned that it was not done due to the humane ideals. TheUSSR saw women’s great potential in both production and expansion of thecommunist ideology. The legacy of the Soviet Epoque still lingers in the post-Sovietspace and Eastern Europe and in order to apprehend the essence of the existingproblems, a look back is required. This article tackles the gender issues anddifficulties of Soviet women as well as emphasizes the achievements and failure ofthe Era. In order to write the article, the author analyzed a vast number ofsecondary sources, visual arts of the epoque, used comparative method tocompare the difference in cultures and its implications for women of that specificculture on the Soviet territory as well as statistical data of nowadays, which isclosely tied to the results of the Soviet legacy .

От съставителя

Author(s): Vihra Barova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

Социална динамика на конструирането на Другия. Възприятията на младите хора за младежките субкултури и културното многообразие

Author(s): Ireri Armenta,Vihra Barova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

This paper discusses the dynamics of the construction of culture from the viewpoint ofyoung adults. These dynamics can be identified both at a macro level, across cultures,and at a micro level, within cultures. Essentialist view of culture as monolithic entitywith fixed values, beliefs and behaviors is a construct that seems to reproduce inthe formation of the image of the Other. Subcultures are contrasted with the socalled norms of mainstream culture, a view which denies the fluidity of culture asa dynamic social construct which can lead to stereotyping and prejudice againstpersons (Holliday 2011). In the fields of sociology and cultural studies, Othernessis related to the construction of identities. It rests on social and cultural hierarchiesand relations of power. “Strangers” are socially produced (Bauman 1998) and theirOtherness reflects the established categories of race, gender and class.The presented study allowed us to unravel the tensions arising from the Us-Them divide, which often leads to discrimination and prejudice. This qualitativeinvestigation explores young adults’ perceptions of subcultures and cultural diversitywith the use of interviews and critical incidents to approach the interviews. In thediscussion of critical incidents, or short stories (Arthur 2001), Bulgarian and Mexicanstudents were seen to relate their own stories to those of the subcultural and foreignOther, thus creating a reflective vision about the cultural difference. The discussionsdemonstrate the invention of successful strategies for avoiding stigmatization,stereotyping and discrimination. On the contrary, their discussions were conduciveto acceptance of differences regarding cultural formation and cultural display(Delanty 2009). The participants raised their voices against discourses that deny thecosmopolitan value of openness and respect, and equal rights of freedom of persons.

Възраждането: предпоставки за неговите исторически и съвременни употреби

Author(s): Albena Hranova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 50/I/2018

The paper seeks to question the concept of the „Bulgarian Revival“ as a fixed, selfevident and taken-for-granted concept. Nowadays Bulgarian literary theory and historiography are experiencing in a similar way the general problematicity of the Revival concept stemming primarily from two things: firstly, this concept completely lacks neutrality, it is axiologically overladen with wholly positive connotations; secondly, the metaphoricity of the concept and the consciousness of an „era“ in it invariably turn out to be interlinked at its very core. This also necessitates an inquiry into the relationship between metaphor and era in the Revival concept which ensure, in different ways and for different occasions, its ability to boundlessly produce cultural continuities, whereby the metaphor blurs and transcends the boundaries and differences between the different eras. The cultural, contextual, and political ability of the Revival concept-metaphor to produce different narratives and, hence, different eras in Bulgarian history is interpreted here as a major premise for its countless historical and contemporary uses.

Българското „духовно възраждане“ в междувоенния период: мистични общности, морализаторски проекти и националистични програми

Author(s): Galina Goncharova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 50/I/2018

The paper analyzes the discourse of the so-called „spiritual revival“ in Bulgaria in the interwar period, tracing back the history of various periodicals and organizations with non-material and non-secular aims. The latter are compared and opposed on the base of (non)belonging to the orthodox faith and the institutional basis of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and respectively are seen as two different responses to the increased search for moral and existential alternatives. Thus the orthodox charity promoted by parish confraternities and journals is presented as a platform for legitimizing the intervention of the Church in the social sphere after WWI, while the varied and complex networks of Tolstoists, theosophers, Dunovists, Masons among others, are discussed as blending the individual mystic transformation with a return to the centuries-old folk traditions and to the practices of Christian neo-gnostic sects such as Bogomilism. The paper, however, outlined the common discursive environment of these two branches of the Bulgarian spiritual revival movement, growing from the postwar anti-liberal attitudes and projecting the development and welfare of the society in retroactive, nationalistic terms.

„Израждане“ и „възраждане“ в режими на историчност: биосоциално инженерство в България от края на XIX век до Втората световна война

Author(s): Gergana Mircheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 50/I/2018

The article studies the specifics of the visions of degeneration and regeneration in Bulgaria within the eugenics discourse and other intellectual and political discourses with which it interceded. Hence, certain concepts of modernity, historical time and identity are reconstructed as a result of biosocial engineering in Bulgaria at the end of the 19th century and especially during the interwar period. The analysis is structured in several sections, which address the following topics: biological images of social time as elaborated at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century; the racial anthropological perspective of the biologist Metodiy Popov towards national historical time; the psychologizations of the „national soul“ envisaged as undergoing social progress and/or decay, as well as the scientific-political versions of a „New Revival“ of the Bulgarian collective organism. The theme of biopolitical regeneration is interpreted as enriching the conceptual background of the „revivalist imagination“ in Bulgaria.

Культурні пріоритети сучасної студентської молоді України: особливості релігійного, естетичного, мистецького і літературного вибору

Author(s): Aleksandra Ruslanivna Havelia / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 3/2018

Purpose of the article is to establish the relationship between the ideological identity of the modern student youth of Ukraine and its relation to religious, literary, artistic and aesthetic values. Methodology. The study is based on the interdisciplinary integration of methods of a multidisciplinary combination of religious studies, art studies, cultural studies, and sociology. With the axiological approach, the results of the analysis of cultural-artistic and religious factors, which determine the formation of the original outlook of Ukrainian student youth, were studied and summarized. Scientific novelty of the research is the presentation of the author's philosophical, conceptual approach to establishing the relationship between the worldview of modern student youth of Ukraine and its relation to religious, literary, artistic and aesthetic values. By the study of the cultural priorities of contemporary student youth, the author first identified the tendency for most respondents to focus on the Christian axiology, which is determined by their Ukrainian outlook and depends on their attitude to religion and the frequency of attending the church. Conclusions. The study of the religious, artistic, literary and aesthetic choices of student youth has shown its predetermination by the intellectual features of higher education graduates, their level of competence in the cultural and artistic branch of knowledge and Christian doctrine. The results of the study made it possible to find those unchanging, essential features that make it possible to speak of a single cultural phenomenon that appeared in specific common religious, artistic, literary and aesthetic priorities and values of contemporary student youth.

Ролевите игри на живото действие като субкултура

Author(s): Angelina Ilieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

The article is a conceptual rationalization of live action role-playing games (LARP games) from the perspective of subcultural studies. The phenomenon of LARP games is addressed through the ideas of John Irwin and Gary Alan Fine, both representatives of the late Chicago School tradition, and defined as a scene of interaction or a leisure subculture. In the presentation of forms of social organization and cultural practices of Bulgarian larp players key terms borrowed from influential theories in the fieldof (post)subcultural studies are used, such as (neo) tribes and bricolage. Both thedynamics of values and attitudes among the active participants and the ideas producedin the perception of the subculture by outside members of society are discussed. Thequestion of the ethical engagement of the researcher to the studied subjects has beenraised and the position of the scholar as a mediator in a media environment oversaturatedwith representations has been questioned.

Nikolay Nenov (Ed.), Beta Haralanova and Tatyana Shtereva. Anguish and Salvation. The Memory of the Jewish Communities in Ruse, Shumen and Varna. Ruse: European Spaces 21 Association, 2015

Author(s): Daniela Koleva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Державна політика щодо охорони культурної спадщини під час Української революції 1917 – 1921 років

Author(s): Tamara Viktorivna Mazur,Ivan Mykolayovych Myshchak / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 4/2018

The purpose of the article is to analyze the activities of the ministries of internal affairs, education, justice, provincial and county assemblies, provincial and district departments of culture, city dumas during the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917 – 1921, regarding the cultural heritage protection in Ukraine. Methodological principles of research: historical method, which allowed to observe the genesis of the activity of state authorities and local self-government in the cultural heritage protection sphere; methods of analysis and synthesis, its application assisted for legal analysis of key normative acts and power decisions; method of comparative analysis – made it possible to compare the cultural heritage protection policy in the Ukrainian People's Republic during the period of the Ukrainian Central Rada and the Directory and in the Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky Ukrainian State. Scientific novelty. The emphasis was placed on the main steps and measures of state authorities and local self-government (there was no separate Ministry of Culture in Ukrainian governments during the period from 1917 to 1921) regarding the organizational and methodological support for the cultural heritage protection and the development of relative educational work, aimed at raising organizational and cultural level of the people. It was argued that in the conditions of constant military operations and a deep economic crisis, the Ukrainian authorities at that time pursued a purposeful state policy not only to protect the cultural heritage in their own territory, but also to return the cultural heritage of Ukrainians illegally exported from Ukraine. Conclusions. The analysis of the activities of the higher authorities, the ministries of internal affairs, education, justice, provincial and county assemblies, provincial and district departments of culture, city dumas during the period of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917 – 1921 allows to concluding on the generally consistent policy to ensure the cultural heritage protection in Ukraine. However, because of the lack of a particular governing body in the relevant sphere (ministries of culture) and frequent power changes, more attention was paid to the cultural heritage protection by local self-government bodies, which participate significant public support. A number of important problems of the memorial sphere, which had to be solved by the authorities a hundred years ago, are also relevant today, so the experience of their successful solution deserves attention of contemporaries.

Political and Legal Tools for Ensuring the Cultural Rights of National Minorities in Ukraine in 1992-2018: Between Declarations and Reality

Author(s): Oleksander Yevhenovych Lysenko,Oleksii Mykhaylovych Tohochynskyi,Volodymyr Mikhailovich Pekarchuk / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The purpose of the article is to characterize the political and legal means of regulating the cultural segment of the functioning of national minorities in Ukraine during the period of independence and to analyze the effectiveness of the legal and regulatory framework in resolving existing problems. Methodological approaches are based on polydisciplinary principles of studying the sphere of touch of ethnonational, legal, political and cultural phenomena. This involves taking into account theoretical developments in each of the scientific disciplines within which the specified range of issues is developed, as well as the application of the newest conceptual categorical apparatus. Through the integrated use of interdisciplinary approaches, the state's steps to regulate the cultural sphere of activity of ethnic and national minorities in modern Ukraine are traced, shortcomings and perspectives are overcome. Scientific novelty of the research is to systematically analyze the factors that influence the process of adopting political and legal documents that meet modern international standards and could accelerate the resolution of pressing problems in this area. Conclusions. The current internal and foreign political situation in Ukraine hinders the rapid resolution of the problems accumulated over many decades in the political and legal regulation of the cultural segment of ethnic minority activity. The action of destructive internal and external factors artificially limited the ability of the state in this regard. At the same time, there are grounds for claiming that there is no goodwill in the political elites that are responsible for resolving such issues. It is necessary to realize that in a rapidly changing world, regulatory support for ethnic policy must respond promptly to the challenges of time and be updated accordingly. The problem of developing adequate tools for the legal provision of cultural rights of ethnonational minorities, as well as the prevention of crisis situations, remains a pressing issue. In order to achieve effective steps in this direction, the state must properly organize their financial and material support.

The Problem of National Identity in the Ecclesiastical Catholic Culture of Austria of the XVIII Century

Author(s): Kateryna Mykolayivna Palamarchuk,Larysa Mykolayivna Lyashenko / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The purpose of the article is to consider the development of the ecclesiastical culture of Catholic countries (Austria, Germany, Poland) on the example of Austria of the XVIII century. It is important to point out and analyze the specific features of the Austrian national culture and its uniqueness in the hierarchical system of the world religious cultures. Methodology. To achieve this purpose, the following logical and semantic research methods were used: historical-dialectical (for the analysis of historical and cultural processes in Austria of the mentioned period), literary studies (for the consideration of church liturgical works) and a method of theoretical generalization that allows us to consider the Austrian church art in the context of the ecclesiastical culture. Scientific novelty. Despite the existence of a number of studies devoted to Catholic culture in the field of art and culture, in Ukrainian science this topic did not become the subject of a comprehensive study. The connection between the European and Ukrainian ecclesiastical traditions is important for understanding the Catholic national culture and art. This led to the choice of the topic of this work. Conclusions. A specific feature of the Catholic ecclesiastical culture is its confessional differentiation. It was formed under the influence of the historical and geographical conditions of the society. The Austrian national component in the ecclesiastical culture of Catholic countries as a system of aesthetic national values is closely linked with the establishment and preservation of Catholic national traditions. This means that Austrian church art and ecclesiastical culture are important components of the hierarchical system of religious culture, which main value lies in the socioreproductive creative activity of artists in the sphere of consciousness. This in its turn is closely related to the transcendent sphere of activity, as well as to the high artistic level and artists‘ skills. That‘s why, like in other national cultures, the ecclesiastical culture of Austria has a national-religious character.

Цифрові виміри трансформації музичної культури кінця ХХ – початку ХХІ століття

Author(s): Oleksandr Viktorovich Yakovlev / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2019

The purpose of the article is to determine the main vectors of sociocultural changes occurring in modern musical culture under the technical influence of the digital revolution. The methodology is based on the fact that this work has a pronounced interdisciplinary character, using the tools of modern culturology, economics, art history, and sociology. The scientific novelty of the article is to focus not only on the artistic processes, specific practices of musical life but also on the actual properties of the media space in which they exist. The study of the new media environment - the Internet, technical communicative capabilities that provided by the digital era in conjunction with the musical culture, is becoming one of the central principles of this study. Conclusions. It is a combination of personal choices of all participants in a musical life that ultimately determines the proportional ratio of all segments of the musical space, which develop according to different scenarios, and, accordingly, the overall result of the digital revolution in the world of musical culture. Today, when, thanks to the achievements of the digital revolution, most sociocultural tasks are being solved more successfully in the network space, new perspectives and potential directions of development are opening up for society, for the modern ―informational‖ civilization. The same potential paths of development are proposed for the space of musical culture: the way of ―curtailing‖ the network ―freedom‖, strengthening the control and hierarchical regulation of art; the path of complete chaos, network "anarchy" and irresponsibility; a movement in the direction of the potential to become a planetary global civil society that is rooted in the digital network, but is able to actively, responsibly and creatively produce, interpret and assimilate the products of the musical artistic environment.

Archaic Dance: Initial Forms and Modernity

Author(s): Tetiana Oleksandrivna Kaznacheieva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The purpose of the article is to consider genesis and specific peculiarities of certain traditions of the archaic and ethnic dance forms, which have survived till the present. Scientific interpretation of the specific internal connections between different constituents of song-dance genres and mass ritual performances allows to ascertain prerequisites of formation of music and dance professionalism within them. The methodology. Historical and culturological, comparative and analytical methods have been applied to characterize archaic public song-music-dance forms, which in conjunction with various ritual tendencies anticipate the origin of phenomenon of music and theatre performance. The scientific novelty of the work lies in understanding of the problems of preserving certain archaic dance forms in modern household, ritual traditions of various peoples as a unique phenomenon of spiritual culture, implementing continuous connection of times and preservation of deep ethnic traditions. Conclusions. Consideration of different forms of archaic dance, which have survived till the present in different genres and manifestations, allows to characterize their as a unique means of human selfknowledge and self-expression. Music, mimics, gesture and dance movements are the only elements of stage adaption of initial magical ritual. Moreover, many forms of archaic dance continue to realize esthetic and even social and cultural function despite the processes of globalization in modern world culture.

ЛОЯЛНОСТТА НА ПЕРСОНАЛА – ФАКТОР ЗА ФОРМИРАНЕ НА КОРПОРАТИВНА КУЛТУРА

Author(s): Irena Emilova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: X/2019

This paper presents an analysis of the relation loyalty - corporate culture. The clarification of the specifics of the concept of „loyalty“ precedes the presentation of the loyalty model of the staff in the organization. Based on the book „Competing Values Framework“ of the world-famous american scientists K. Cameron and R. Quinn considered the following types of culture: clan, adhocracy, hierarchy and market. Outlined are the manifestations of loyalty in the proposed typology. It has been establishing that the staff loyalty plays a crucial role in the formation of the corporate culture.

Міжнародно-правові стандарти в сфері охорони культурної спадщини та їх імплементація у національне законодавство держав

Author(s): Yuriy Oleksiyovych Voloshin,Alexander Volodymyrovych Yepifanov,Oleg Volodymyrovych Martselyak,Nina Ivanivna Karpachova / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2019

The aim of the study is to define international legal standards in the field of protection of cultural heritage and legal acts aimed at the implementation of relevant standards in the national legislation of the state. The methodological base of the research combines general scientific and special scientific concepts, theories and methods. Such methods of cognition as historical, comparative analysis, empirical generalization, modeling and abstraction, dialectical, systemic, complex, and others are used as the methodological base of the research. So, for the knowledge of the legal content of the concept “protection of cultural heritage” the dialectic method is used. The methods of modeling and abstraction are used in the process of studying the implementation of international legal standards for the protection of cultural heritage. Gnoseological methods of cognition are also widely used - induction, deduction, analysis and synthesis, which made it possible to solve the problem of studying the ontological and practically praxeological paradigm of cultural heritage in the modern context of constitutional and legal development. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that the issue of the implementation of international legal acts in the field of protection and preservation of cultural heritage from the perspective of contemporary global challenges has been actualized for the first time. Сonclusions. As a result of the study, the following most important characteristics of international legal standards for the protection of cultural heritage and their implementation in the national legal system should be noted: providing citizens of the state with legal means of using the norms of international treaties on the protection of cultural heritage; mediation of the national implementation of international treaties by all types of legal activities of the state; the need for official publication implemented an international treaty on the protection of cultural heritage; the saturation of international treaties on the protection of cultural heritage with evaluative concepts, the high level of abstractness of their requirements; influence on the practice of implementing the norms of the studied international treaties of acts of international law enforcement agencies; the presence of international mechanisms that monitor the implementation of international obligations undertaken by states under treaties for the protection of cultural heritage.

Політичні та Етнокультурні передумови автономістських рухів у православній церкві Бессарабії (ХIХ – поч. ХХ ст.)

Author(s): Gennadij Mykhaylovych Nadtoka,Inna Volodymyrivna Horpynchenko / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2019

The purpose of the article is to reconstruct the advancing process of the ethnopolitical and ethnocultural prerequisites of the autonomy of the Orthodox Church in Bessarabia in XIX-early XX century and attempts of their implementation. Methodology. The research is based on the principle of methodological synthesis. It provides the consolidation of the instrumental findings of famous scientific schools, in particular, the civilization approach to the analysis of the historical process and the methods of social and anthropological history along with the mentality discourse. That has enabled to take account of the features of stage development of state and religious institutes, the extent of civilization likeness of states and peoples, possibilities of their cultural and religious self-identification in the polyethnic society. The scientific novelty is in finding out the conceptual approaches to the interpretation of the history of the Orthodox Church in Bessarabia in XIX-early XX century, determining the dominant factors of the development of the national and foreign models of Orthodoxy, substantiating the fact that there were necessary ethnocultural prerequisites for beginning of the autonomy process in the country in the early XXth century. Conclusions. In spite of over hundred-year Russian colonization and serial russification of Orthodox Church in Bessarabia, it preserved ethnocultural and ethnoreligious principles of national identity. Russian bourgeois-democratic revolutions naturally aroused not only the country autonomy movement but also autocephalous one violently ceased by Romanian conquest of Bessarabia.

Невдоволення державою як супутній феномен смислової пустотності дискурсу культури

Author(s): Valeriy Anatolyevich Sivers / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2019

Purpose of Research. The purpose of the article is to analyze the concept of «voidness» as an essential characteristic of the modern cultural discourse in the context of the analysis of the institution of the state that leads to the dissatisfaction with it. Methodology. The research methodology involves a combination of the following methods: dialectical, phenomenological, comparative, historical, and onto-gnoseological ones. The latter is based on the formation of ideas about the basic parameters, taking into account the consequences of the temporary perception and understanding of the researched phenomenon. Scientific Novelty. The scientific novelty of the research focuses on the terms of the «voidness of the meanings of the discourse of culture» and «the axiological verification of the text». The mentioned «voidness» means the process of the formation of cultural meanings, which does not get closer to the syncretization of the myphonarativs as the basic value structure of individual and collective consciousness but multiplies distances among its realization. The idea is substantiated by ontological, cultural and ethical arguments. The concept of «the axiological verification of the text» is the development of the ethical argument, given in the article. Conclusions. Understanding the idea of the voidness of discourse of cultural meanings and the use of the axiological text verification allow us operating with the stereotypical schemes and phasing of the established forms of scientific analysis in the field of socio-humanitarian subjects to overcome the effect of distance from their essence. We are talking about simultaneously bringing the arguments in the traditional logic of perception, which gives rise to the phenomenological «wrapper» of a thing, and the opposed axiological verification procedure.

Освітні процеси як основа становлення правосвідомості в першій Чехословацькій республіці (1918-1938 рр.)

Author(s): Myroslava Volodymyrivna Gromovchuk,Olga Oleksandrivna Sydorenko / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2019

The purpose of the Article is to clarify the place and role of religious and secular education in the process of intercultural dialogue in the formation of the legal culture of the transitional period in the state, in particular, the period of activity of the First Czechoslovak Republic. Methodological basis - the basis of the methodology of the research is the general theoretical methods, principles, and approaches to the definition of the Constitutionally-legal consolidation of the state and church status in the First Czechoslovak Republic. In particular, the formallogical method was used to study the conceptual apparatus defined by the article's theme. Functional and comparative legal methods are used for comparative analysis of legal culture and legal consciousness in the First Czechoslovak Republic. In the process of studying legal culture and legal awareness as an element of culture in the state a structural and functional method was used. The most important is the historicalretrospective method. This method has allowed to specify the previously mentioned methodological principle of historicism and to know the laws of the genesis of legal culture and legal consciousness in the First Czechoslovak Republic. The scientific novelty consists in the systematic analysis of the factors that influence the cultural and educational process in the formation of a citizens' sense of justice. At the same time, it was first established that the main factor of the historical and cultural process in the First Czechoslovak Republic, the formation of legal culture and legal consciousness was Catholicism. It was he who also influenced the Constitutionally-legal consolidation of the right to education and upbringing, a change in the educational ideal took place: the spiritual life of man became the subject of in-depth study and acquired the highest priority of religious significance. Conclusions. In the First Czechoslovak Republic, the cultural-educational process served as a paradigm of intercultural dialogue for people of different ethnic, linguistic and religious backgrounds. The role of education in this context is defined as a strategic resource for improving the well-being of individuals in the formation of tolerance and mutual respect in the process of observance of fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens. Intercultural dialogue, in this case, is a combination of components, in particular, spiritual and secular education, in shaping a person's respect for language, religion, culture, and world outlook.

Основні етапи формування та розвитку екологічної правової культури в сучасному суспільстві

Author(s): Svetlana Petrivna Palamarchuk,Viktor Ivanovich Byrkovych,Oleksandr Petrovich Svitlychnyy / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2019

Purpose of the Article. It consists in covering the main stages of the formation of ecological culture in the context of the modern culture of society. The methodology is based on the principle of objectivity and an integrated approach and in the application of the method of analysis and synthesis, which made it possible to follow the formation and development of ecological culture in the context of the culture of society. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the expansion of ideas about the ecological culture of man in modern society. The analysis of the gradual formation of ecological culture in the structure and functions of the culture itself. Conclusions. As a result of the research, it was established that culture in all its manifestations is an object and subject of study of many specific sciences, ecology is not an exception. Culture was formed on the activities of society and man, along with its results. Culture is the result of the development of the relationship between man and nature, therefore the perception of culture depends on the person. The formation of the ecological culture of society is formed on the basis of education, upbringing and culture, which allows a person to make constructive decisions to solve environmental problems.