The main scientific approaches to the study of mentality and mentality

The article discusses the scientific approaches of foreign and Russian authors to the study of the phenomena of mentality and mentality. A brief description of their structural features, functions and levels is presented. Scientific philosophical and cultural studies positions to the interpretation of the categories of mentality and mentality in modern domestic and foreign thought are substantiated. The dominant aspects of the research of mentality and mentality in the framework of various foreign and domestic scientific approaches are analyzed.