The article was retracted on October 20, 2019.

The article is devoted to the present stage of globalization process, attempts to estimate its strategy and methods. In this regard the autor considers the condition of consciousness of modern society, the place of the person in the globalized world, and defines its possible future in comparison with the existing big megaproject of the person.

The article is devoted to critical analysis of contemporary globalization. It is noted that globalization threatens the entire social world, but the small nations and states which are losing their sovereignty, their language and culture suffer from it most of all.

The article is devoted to the research of internal and external threats of Russia in the context of globalization. In particular, related to the adverse effects of accession of our country to the WTO, and also to the Western sanctions, taken in connection with the entry of the Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation in various spheres of life of Russian society: economics, finance, industry, education, science, agriculture, demography, military construction. The author shows the necessity of refusal of neoliberal reforms, development of non-oil economy, ensuring the sovereignty of the financial system, re-industrialization, stopping the collapse of the national system of education and science, modernization of agriculture, developing a new demographic policy, strengthening the country’s defense for the neutralization of internal and external threats and ensuring the sovereignty and national security of Russia in the 21^st century.

The article presents for the first time epistemological characteristics of modernization in Russia and its regions as objective-subjective problematic field. It is highlighted the basic problem that includes a double contradiction, or the interaction of two contradictions: on the one hand, a dangerous mismatch of main components of modernization, and on the other hand, mutual misunderstandings between individuals and sociocultural strata of society distrust institutions. The author shows that the study of this problem and problematic field generally require adequate methodological approaches. He proposes a set of interrelated approaches: activity, system and sociocultural activity. The key elements reveal problematic field of modernization as core subjects or areas of study. The article considers the potential of constructive realism programme in the context of designing ways of Russia modernization regulation.

The article is devoted to consideration the dimensions of spatial asymmetry of modern Russian society which are caused by economic, social and sociocultural distinctions between its regions. The author differentiates the concepts of social and economic disparity and sociocultural differentiation for using in regional distinctions surveys. She defines and analyzes significant economic, social and sociocultural factors of the Russian society territorial differentiation.

The article focuses on the relationship between the structure of individual values and modernization statues of the Russian regions. The main starting point is an idea of valuable and culturally rational behavior of individuals as a condition for the successful modernization. We assume the orientation of individuals on modern values causes modernization statues of region as community.

The article considers the innovations in economy as a product of sociocultural factors. It shows that in the contemporary Russian situation the influence of economic factors on the business innovation activity isn’t considerable. It shows also some all-Russian and local (for the Samara city) sociocultural factors influencing on innovation processes. The author emphasizes the role of young specialists in intensifying innovation processes and reinforcing the economic factor influence on these processes.

Influence of religious content reintegration on public and private space of modern Russian society is discussed in the article. Attention is focused on national identification being determined by religious content and on religious component used as symbolic resource for new socio-political communicative practice formation.

The article discusses tourist legendizing as a method of using symbolic tools and resources in the development of humanitarian potential of the territory. Tourist legend has a special turnours, as natural or cultural objects that are used directly in tourism. The аssociation of methodology and methods of complex geographical characteristics, spatial representations (mythologies), the theory of image and branding can effectively influence contemporary socio-economic, cultural and political development of regions of Russia.

This article is continuation of the article «Social and Cultural Types in Science of Society. To the Typology of Mentality. Article 2». The previous article described the basic mental types: clan individual, logocentric and person. This article studies mixed mental types: clan logocentric and under-person as well as person. It describes methods of social behavior of each of them and offers a scheme of study of mediation processes.

The article is dedicated to the memory of habilitated doctor of philosophy Larisa Chuhina. Biography restored on the basis of private archives, recollections of the author. The article assesses the scientific contributions to the philosophical heritage of Latvia and Russia. L. Chuhina was the most knowledgeable interpretator of Western philosophy of her generation. The themes of her scholarly interests included history of philosophy, axiology and the religious-philosophical anthropology. Chuhina was one of the first to explore the philosophical legacy of Max Scheler in USSR. She had published monographs „Human Being and the World of Values. Critical Assessments” (Riga, 1980, 1991), and „Human Being in Religious Philosophy” (Riga, 1996), as well as a great number of scholarly articles.