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Abstract Objective: to demonstrate methodological importance for social and humanitarian studies to differentiate content of the notions “society”, “culture” and “civilization”. Methods: content and logical analysis, interpretation, comparison, generalization, theoretical deduction. Results: It is asserted that the notions “society”, “culture” and “civilization” have different but connected contents. The notion “society” reflects sociality as the unity of universal attributes, such as producing activity, consciousness and social norms. Society is considered as the process and the result of joint activity of individuals engaged in socio-cultural mastering of the world. The notion “culture” distinguishes the abstract attributes of sociality from the concrete historical forms of their existence and manifestation in real space-time conditions. In the sense of “stage” the notion “civilization” refers to that period of human history when social structure, state and laws emerged. In the sense of “level” it marks different degrees in the universal process of improving the attributes of sociality, obtained by particular subject of culture. Civilization is considered as the actual level of development and the continuous process of improvement of the universal attributes of sociality in any particular form of cultural specificity. Scientific novelty: for the first time content of the notions “society”, “culture” and “civilization” is considered as different but linked together by the attributes of sociality. Practical significance: the main conclusions of the article can be used in social and humanitarian studies of socio-cultural reality.
Society, Culture, Civilization, Attributes of Sociality
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