Ryleva, A. N. On the Question of Understanding What Culture is and its Consequences for Teaching.

Abstract: The article considers the definition of culture which is the most adequate in regard to the latest studies of human speech activity proving that ‘speech formation’ and ‘culture formation’ are becoming practically synonymous now. It is asserted that in the 21st century, human existence is defined by the consistency of outcasts from niches, stratum and etc. but not the consistency of social bonds. Under such conditions construction of one’s personal ‘first world’ is nothing else but a construction of one’s own individual and na ve culture. The author of the article suggests one of the possible methods of teaching cultural studies which would allow to master universal intellectual operations and to focus on a personality living in an ever-changing world.

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