[1] The concept of “multiculturalism” arose in the late 1980s - early 90s among American intellectuals and by the mid-90s it was brought to Russia along with many new words and labels, such as “postmodernism”, “new historicism” and so on. [2] All of them remain poorly developed and unreflected. Despite this, many of them gained importance and power.

Models for understanding Russian history History is a discipline that reflects the worldview of society. Depending on these attitudes, not only the nuances of assessments or moral signs assigned to certain events and characters vary, but also the methodology . Russian history in all its versions is also a product of a worldview .

Please complete the sentence: “People in our city and village are divided according to the following criteria:” Population survey July 17-22, 2001 c Public Opinion Foundation, 2001 Differentiation by standard of living 53 Poor and rich "Rich and poor"; “rich and poor”; “They live richly nearby, but we have nothing”; “powerful and mendicant”; “poor, rich and very rich”; “those who buy and those who go to the store as if it were a museum”; “for a small number of rich people, the rest are poor”;

Print Vitaly Kurennoy Mechnikov's favorite reading was Dumas. Mechnikov assured that he was the calmest writer: “He kills five people on every page, and it’s not scary at all.” Yu. Tynyanov. About plot and plot in cinema Identity in art has not always been taken for granted, much less as a positive thing. On the contrary, classical aesthetic theories suggested a way out of the narrow perspective of individual and collective isolation into a space of beauty that was universal in nature.

Niclas Luman is one of the living classics of modern sociological thought, although so far his work is little known to the Russian -speaking reader. The translation of "power" (1975, 1988), which had recently declared the Publishing house "Praxis", is of undoubted interest both thematically and from the point of view of translation practice.

Alexander Anatolyevich, the topic of the current issue of “Notes of the Fatherland” is “Pictures of the World.” And your job, as I understand it, is that you constantly “get into” the “pictures of the world” of your respondents. Is not it? Everything is correct. For simplicity, we all call population surveys a study of public opinion, although it would be more correct, of course, to talk about clarifying the peculiarities of worldview and attitude inherent in modern residents of Russia.

, a branch of social psychology , studies the national character and, in particular, the characteristics of the national perception of the surrounding world Ethnopsychology . The identification of ethnopsychology as a separate scientific discipline is associated with the names of German scientists M. Lazarus, H. Steinthal and W. Wundt , who made the first attempts at a scientific analysis of national psychology in the second half of the 19th century .

* The publisher of the magazine "Domestic Notes" Pavel Petrovich Svinin, the son of a senator from the Kostroma nobles, was a graduate of the Moscow University noble boarding house, studied at the Academy of Arts. Serving the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a government official, he made a number of sea and land foreign travel in 1806–1813, visited the Mediterranean, Spain, America, England.

Geopolitics is most often defined as the “doctrine of the dependence of political events on the territory” - a science that studies the influence of the fundamental properties of space on political reality: mountains and rivers create “natural borders”, the struggle of interested states flares up for convenient harbors, implies a completely different form of the political order than small and isolated mountain valleys, etc.

The “man on the street” ideas about social structure “People in our city are divided into...” How would you finish this sentence? Maybe you believe that people are divided into stupid and smart? Or on pedestrians and motorists? Or maybe it is more important to divide people into honest and dishonest?

I This is not the first time that philosophy has found itself in the face of terror: German philosophy tried to think about the terror of the Great French Revolution; in response to Soviet and Nazi terror, the concept of totalitarianism was formulated; many other philosophical constructions are also unthinkable without this experience.

In 1998, the Harvard University Press published the fundamental work of sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) Randall Collins, “The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change , ” which, without exaggeration, became the largest event in philosophical scientific life at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. First of all, this is a huge compendium (a brief overview) of the world's main philosophical schools over twenty-five centuries.

In this volume of “OZ”, we are presenting and provoking a discussion of what we understand to be a “Russian worldview”, or how the world is seen from Russia. Studying this phenomenon has at least two dimensions: it is supposed to add to a better understanding of global problems – and to seek some clarification of the much spoken of, but little studied, Russian mentality (which may or not be the same as the proverbially enigmatic Russian soul).

The Increasing Relationship Between Public Opinion and Foreign Policy In the modern world, public opinion has an increasing influence on the foreign policy of states. Thus, in the United States, public opinion institutions carefully monitor the reaction of different sectors of society to significant foreign policy decisions. Political leaders commission surveys designed to assess public attitudes to various scenarios for the development of events in the international arena.

Print Anthony T. Salvia * The transformation of Russia into a potential strategic partner of the West is, apparently, the most surprising, constructive and hopeful consequence of the World Trade Center tragedy. The prospect of sustained cooperation between the two powers - Anglo-American maritime and Russian continental - suggests that a new world order will emerge, based on something more than free trade and immigration and the unfettered distribution of Hollywood films.