Philosophical aspects of concept understanding “global culture”

The concept “globalization” is a key for understanding of changes, happening in all spheres of social life, started in the last third of XX century, despite this fact the discussion of positive and negative points of globalization is still under attention of scientists. Increasing the degree of openness of national social-economic systems, globalization leads to irreversible changes inside separate national cultures. The problem of culture globalization from the view of culturological approach is analyzed and the existing possibility of national cultures resolution in global is reviewed. The principles of dialectic methods are the basis for methods of research. The culturological basis of globalization, basing on conceptual apparatus, built up in modern philosophy, sociology, culturology is analyzed. It is shown, that the process of globalization does not only creates uniform structures in economy and policy of different countries of the world, but also leads to “glocalization” – adaptation of elements of modern western culture for local conditions and local traditions. It is concluded, that global culture – is one of culture forms, the existence of which is not rejected, but global culture is not the only one, but exists with national, ethnic, folk and other forms of culture, has its own structure and morphology, has definite functions and forms modern values.

globalization, culture, global culture, national cultures, cultural identity