Sociological Discourse of Culture: Experience in Interpretation

Abstract

The authors construct in the article a consistent justification for dividing culture into material, social and spiritual. The opinion is substantiated that such a decomposition of culture in sociological discourse is supplemented by data from modern psychology, which speak in favor of just such a structure of human needs. The authors give the point of view that such a methodological solution to the problem is of the most general nature and requires further development and concretization, while they note that this approach is promising, in particular, in that it makes it possible to transfer such a complex problem of the social sciences into the sphere of specific sociological research as a problem of values. It is quite obvious that social values are not arbitrary phenomena, but functions of human needs, and therefore can be investigated by empirical methods.