HISTORY AS A CULTURAL PROCESS IN THE METHODOLOGY OF THE ANNALS’ «NEW HISTORICAL SCIENCE»

Abstract

The approach of the Annals school to history and the influence of this approach on culture-based research are analyzed. An interdisciplinary approach in culturology in combination with the systematic method as a key research methodology was applied. The significance of the Annals school and the contribution made by the French historians of this school to the development of culture-based research is revealed. The «new historical science» of the Annals School is characterized as a natural stage in the formation of cultural research, where history is the core of the humanities. The «new historical science» is highlighted as a direction in historical science, based on an interdisciplinary approach to the study of society, where culturology, sociology, psychology, ethnography, etc. work on the «united front». Cultural research is considered as a phenomenon that focuses on society, because the social is inseparable from the cultural, and the cultural appears as a product of the social.