CULTURAL CRISIS AS THE PROCESS OF CHANGING VALUES

The article examines problem of crisis of value foundations of culture. One of the contexts of use buzzword "crisis" with respect to the culture in which the crisis is investigated through an understanding of culture as a system of value interconnection is considered. It is revealed that the crisis of culture is understood as a necessary or random change values. In the classical literature there are two points of view on the crisis in the meaning of the need to change (follows from the very development of culture) the values: a transition from one form of culture to another or a transition from one culture to another, respectively. In research based on the acceptance of random (sporadic) change of values, positions that the main causes of the crisis of culture assume the society or person are distinguished.It is drawn a conclusion, that the understanding of cultural crisis as a necessary to change values crisis is considered as a neutral process that can lead to positive or negative consequences. In the investigation of cultural crisis as a random change of values (sporadic, depending on the reasons for non-binding: on the state of society or on the consciousness of individuals) crisis, is generally credited with negative property. But the etymology of the word "crisis" suggests that it is a phenomenon, which is deprived of established values interconnections, while in the process of which it is impossible to make an unambiguous decision. The situation, when things are bad or good - it's position before or after the crisis.A definition of the of crisis of value foundations of culture as a process of rethinking the connections between the spheres of society in which it is impossible to give a clear answer to the question of what connections exist between the spheres of society is provided. If the answer can be unequivocal, there is no crisis. If the situation is incomprehensible, the values are changing.