GLOBALIZATION AND WORLD CULTURE OF XX – BEGINNING OF XXI CENTURIES: ACHIEVEMENTS, PECULIARITIES, PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES

The article is about the modern world cultural processes – globalization in the culture sphere of XX – the beginning of XXI centuries in the context of its achievements, peculiarities, problems, perspectives. A brief excursion is made into the formation history of cultural researches, being radically changed in the beginning of XX century. The characteristic features of cultural globalization, according to its directions: the popular (mass) culture, modern world currents in art, the counter-culture as the opposition to the official culture and also the contents, peculiarities, the points of touching and understanding, the tendencies of modern world cultures and civilizations: Christian, Confucian, Islamic, Indian, Japanese, are lighted up and analyzed. We discuss separately the postmodernism estimations of the Ukrainian researcher Yaroslav Dashkevych, the influence of the postmodernist directions on the state of the modern global cultural process. The positive and negative aspects on the way to the formation of the new world social order, modern integration processes of the non-western cultures and the results of the world cultural integration today and also the concepts of “civilizations’ collision”, “civilizations’ resistance”, probable scenario of the world inter-civilization integration, the positive achievements and problems, the mankind perspectives on the way to the globalization of cultural processes are examined.