4. Make sure you’ ve got the meaning of the words. Now match the columns and
complete
Table 3
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миссия
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pазнообразие
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наследие
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человечество
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накапливать
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сосуществование
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вызывать
h.
смутный, неясный
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преувеличивать
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лучшее понимание
k.
проявление
l.
особый, особенный
m.
приобретать
n.
разносторонний талант
o.
гуманитарные науки
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to exaggerate
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to accumulate
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to acquire
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vague
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to evoke
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particular
7.
diversity
8.
manifestation
9.
heritage
10.
mankind
11.
insight
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versatile
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humanities
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coexistence
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mission
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5. While reading fill in the missing phrases given below. Entitle each passage
A A
In contemporary Social
Sciences, the word
“culturology” is taken
from American anthropologist Leslie
White who defined it as the
field of science which studies culture as cultural systems.
Following White, philosopher
of science Mario
Bunge defined culturology as
the sociological, economic, political and historical study of
concrete cultural systems.
He defined
it as an integral
system and its influence on human behavior.
The notion of culturology in Russia takes its and
early 20th century and associated with the names of Mikhail
Bakhtin,
Aleksei
Losev, Sergey
Averintsev,
B
To say that culturology relates
to culture is to say very little. Culture is a subject of
research of many sciences – history, philosophy, archeology,
anthropology, sociology, linguistics. But each studies culture
as a particular sphere, in its particular manifestations. The field
of culturology is specific. Its subject matter extends beyond the
boundaries of the humanities. It studies culture as a global
phenomenon connected . It’s a metha - science which
integrates the
knowledge of culture accumulated over the course of civilization
and brings it to a more sophisticated system. The
culturologists understands
culture as concrete social systems composed of living human
beings and engaged in cultural and social activities of various
kinds. They study belief systems, cultural activities
and social relations in their cultural, economic,
political, sociological, anthropological, geographical and historical
contexts.
C
C
The historical path of the
formation of culturology conceptions doesn’t mean a process of
accumulation of humanitarian knowledge of culture. It’s not a
quantitative enrichment of cultural experience either. The general
idea of the science is determined the formation of
the world’s civilization. Culturology analyses the features
common for the world community and those specific for
separate nations. In the range of research of culturology are
culture, its forms, structure, functions and tendencies in
modern society
D
D
To be a successful specialist
one should know a lot. The students of the culturology department
get a good set of humanitarian knowledge: in history,
archeology, theory of arts, theory of culture, history of
civilizations, history of arts, history of science, history of
religions, philosophy, esthetics. The curriculum includes
. The students acquire practical skills in clay - modeling,
pottery, vine – breading, silk - painting, wood
– painting, doll – making, fabric
– utilizing. These subjects are supposed to give them a deeper
insight
into the nature of arts when dealing with textures, materials,
forms, colors and technologies.
E
The sphere of practical usage
of culturology is wide. Its knowledge is applied in cultural
policy and management, socio-cultural and mass
communications, education and in the
field . Future specialists can find an employment in
institutes and centres of scientific research, museums and libraries,
Mass Media and travel agencies, education establishments where they
will solve the problems of theory and history of culture. In federal
and municipal organs of administration ( management ) the
specialists work out scientific and cultural programs aimed at
keeping safe natural and cultural heritage.
F
We can’t fail to recognize the
fact that we live in a complicated and contradicting world. The
characteristic feature of the present is not only an active
polylogue of different cultures but a creative interaction, their
assimilation
and integration. It’s highly important that the diversity of
cultures shouldn’t be destructive. Priority should be given to the
formation of a new world’s order, where cultural identities and
cultural autonomies are accompanied with universal values of
humanism, peaceful coexistence in a single environment filled with
a great number of various cultures. So we can safely say that
of the culturologist is noble and important. He keeps
safe historical and cultural heritage for future generations. In
his activity he works out the strategies aimed at making the
world safe, spiritually rich and
humane.
If culture is the cultivation of
nature, then culturology is not merely the study of culture, but its
further cultivation.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culturology
