COGNITIVE AND CREATIVE POTENTIAL OF UKRAINIAN CULTURE: HISTORY AND FUTURE

Abstract

Abstract. The research aims to disclose the essence of an interval method and its introduction as a research tool for the methodology of cultural studies.

The object of research is the methodology of culture, the subject of research is the interval method formed in the methodology of post-modernism. In the article, the author attempts to explicate key concepts of the interval method and justifies the necessity of its use in cultural research.

Established that the applicability of the interval method in a multidimensional study of culture consists in abstraction as a way of replacing the sensory givenness of the studied object with a mental construct; in the selection of an abstract cultural object for the purpose of representing its essential aspects, properties, establishing their correlation, and the like; abstraction intervals are distinguished to establish clear boundaries of cognitive operations; conceptual sweep – the reflection of the same object of study in different planes and consequently finding for it a plurality of existence and conceptual convolution, which, in the variety of concepts, foreshortenings, phenomena, appears as one conceptual whole; contextualization – the consideration of the object of cultural research in terms of a specific research task, as the unity of diversity (the principle of complementarity) and, finally, the basic concepts of a holistic and multidimensional culture, defined for a specific study.

Scientific novelty consists in introduction of the interval method into the methodology of cultural studies.

The conclusion is made considering the possibility of introduction of the interval method in the methodology of cultural studies as a tool for multidimensional analysis of culture.