Culture as the Potential of Modernization

Abstract

The author shows the cultural meanings of modernization of social system and proves that the main strategic objective of the latter is to satisfy the challenge of human progress, which implies the development of culture as one of its fundamental prerequisites. The progress of culture as the most important factor of social modernization, in turn, is based on the solution of the problems of disalienation, negation of the narrow frameworks of the human and social development, created by the modern model of globalization. The preconditions for doing so are to overcome the alienation of the individual from his or her essential social role - a subject of social transformations and from culture, because it must be based on the involvement of human being in the appropriation of cultural values and their creation.