Culturology as a systemforming science

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to consider culturology as a systemic knowledge about culture, which is an integrative phenomenon, to identify the main trends in modern culturological research. The methodology of the work consisted of: interdisciplinary and systematic approaches to the issue, which allowed us to comprehensively consider culturology as a holistic system of culturological knowledge, which is in integral connection with all subsystems;
method of analysis, synthesis, synergetic, axiological - to identify the main aspects of culturology as a systemic view of the development of culture, its functions and role in intercultural communication, the emergence of new cultural phenomena mediated by technological determinants. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the systematization and expansion of scientific ideas about the place and role of culturology in the system of philosophical knowledge at the present stage of social development. Conclusions. Culturology is a system-forming science and its subject is a system of knowledge that could conceptually affect the formation of cultural life in a globalized world, especially in today's globalization breakdown, world holocaust, and psychological stress. That is why the concept of culture is so important today, which connects theoretical and practical ideas about all spheres of human life, a methodology that provides a comprehensive study of culture as a holistic phenomenon of unity of cultural heritage, able to ensure the comfortable
existence of man in the modernized technological world.
Key words: culturology, culture, anthropocentric paradigm, methodology, ideology, digital culture, values.