Social and Cultural Types in the Science of Society

Abstract

The article suggests that the center of study of social structure of society should be shifted from materialistic criteria to sociocultural. It gives three basic sociocultural types in mentality of a modern man: clan individ, logocentric and person, and investigates their mental contents. The author There claims that these types can transit into each other and that the logic of cultural evolution under conditions of ideal’s globalization just via the new stratification can be properly explained.