Sociocultural Crisis and the Possible Ways of its Recovery

Purpose: Whereas the current updated issues related to the increase of destructive and negative processes in
contemporary society and culture are actualized, arises the problem of defi ning the concept of socio-cultural crisis as a
contradictory mismatching process of “social” and “cultural” in socium. Therefore, the possible crisis recovery ways are
being determined on this basis.
Methods: From this point of view, the most appropriate for the study of modern innovative society is a
methodological approach, according to which the crisis is considered as a permanent contradictory process, in which the
equilibrium state is a specifi c and inferior moment.
Results: In accordance with three distinguished types of anomie (social, psychological and cultural), fi xing
contradictory mismatch of “social” and “cultural” at different levels, the socio-cultural crisis recovery models are specifi ed.
Discussion: The fi rst one suggests the “regulating” of society by means of legal, punitive, disciplining and
controlling action of, primarily, state authorities (the “social” regulates the “cultural”). The second model – destructiverevolutionary,
fi rst of all implies a radical “old society” social institutions break and a “liberation” of a man internally
ready for a new life. The third model is based on the idea of not only changes in the external circumstances of being of
the individual, but also, above all, his self-transformation, spiritual revival and “self-fi nish-building”. In the cultural history
of mankind we fi nd many examples of implementing these models in the socio-cultural crisis recovery, but it should be
emphasized that they do not exist in their “pure” form, but are always in dynamic interaction, although at different stages
of sociocultural crisis evolution one of them may dominate.