Artistic and humanitarian approaches in shaping the contemporary cultural model
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https://doi.org/10.56294/sctconf20251485Keywords:
Culture, Folk Art, Folklore Text, Model of Culture, Oral Traditional CultureAbstract
Introduction: The article is dedicated to exploring the model of culture through the lens of contemporary artistic and humanitarian approaches within the current cultural discourse.
Objective: The text describes cultural models at various stages of humanity's diachronic development, defines the essence of meaning-making processes underlying the artistic-humanitarian approach to the culture model, and examines the relationship between components of the contemporary culture model.
Methods: The study employed the method of analysis and synthesis, historical method, structural-functional method and method of generalisation. The article is an original research of a theoretical nature, and its conclusions may be valuable for the implementation of cultural and language policy. The article analyses 25 bibliographic sources that form the methodological basis of the study.
Results: The research proves that the contemporary synchronous cultural model has three dimensions: cognitive, evaluative, and regulatory. Various approaches are used to analyse it, including descriptive, axiological, activity-based, psychoanalytic, civilizational, existential, artistic, and humanitarian, which includes semiotic and hermeneutic approaches. The humanitarian approach involves two levels of understanding: interpretation of texts and the construction of explanations and theories. In the context of the humanitarian approach to cultural models, it is important to have an orientation towards understanding another culture, way of life, or behaviour. When examining issues of cultural interaction, the contemporary cultural model is characterized by assimilation, colonization, modernization, cultural exchange, and partial assimilation.
Conclusions: Thus, the culture model is viewed through the prism of five meaning-making processes: representation, identity, creativity, interpretation, and regulation, according to the artistic-humanitarian approach.
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