Author(s)

Mariia Nepomilueva

Corresponding Author

Mariia Nepomilueva

ABSTRACT

This study is an attempt to comprehend the logic of the transformations taking place in art today, which have found their embodiment in the phenomenon of meta-modernism. For these purposes, the typology of cultural mentalities of P. Sorokin and the aspects of social interaction allocated to them are used. It is shown that social processes are determined by the dominant type of socio-cultural mentality, with an appropriate system of truth and knowledge, the nature of needs and the method of satisfying them, styles of art, etc. Over the course of twenty-five centuries, fluctuations of the types of cultural mentality given above have occurred (and also social values, forms and meanings of socio-cultural communication, the basic needs and goals of society, etc.) without any strict pattern in their development. The phenomenon of meta-modernism with its new sincerity and new atmosphere, with oscillations between the values of modernism and the tools of postmodern knowledge is an attempt to give an answer to the decline of the sensory type of cultural mentality taking place today, to find new forms of the idealistic type of cultural mentality that can replace the sensual type which is specific for postmodernism. This crisis and the need to pass through the transitional stage of cultural mentality, where we find ourselves today, were predicted P. Sorokin more than half a century ago.

KEYWORDS

Socio-cultural dynamics, cultural mentalities, dominant mentality, sensual type of cultural mentality, socio-cultural interaction, eclectic type of art, meta-modernism