Open AccessThreeDimensional Modelling of Cultural Space
Author(s) -
Mikhail Ya. Saraf
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
observatoriâ kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2588-0047
pISSN - 2072-3156
DOI - 10.25281/2072-3156-2014-0-2-10-17
Subject(s) - sociocultural evolution , relation (database) , meaning (existential) , epistemology , space (punctuation) , dimension (graph theory) , sociology , value (mathematics) , mode (computer interface) , content (measure theory) , anthropology , mathematics , philosophy , pure mathematics , linguistics , computer science , operating system , mathematical analysis , statistics , database
Is based on understanding culture as a mode of being human. Deriving therefrom, the author defines five factors that determine a type of culture; those are relation to nature and modes of operation, community building, thinking and understanding. The content and structure of the latter may change depending on specific historical state of human society, namely precivilizational, civilizational and postcivilizational. This may be interpreted as a 2D model of cultural space. The third dimension is defined by coordinates of value and meaning; these are represented in sociocultural implications of a response given to the question as to what a human being is by different type of cultures.