Materials of the second session of educational, scientific and methodological seminar «Theory and practice of applied culture studies» on the basis of Arts History and Cultural Studies Department, Institute for the Humanities, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk October 14th, 2009

Abstract

The second session of educational, scientific and methodological seminar «Theory and practice of applied culture studies» was held on the basis of Arts History and Cultural Studies Department, Institute for the Humanities, Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk) on the 14th of October, 2009. The subject matter of the second session is «Methods of applied culture studies: structural functionalism version. Part 1: The general theoretical principles of Bronislaw Kasper Malinowskis and Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Browns conceptions». The following questions are to be discussed here: 1. B.K. Malinowskis and A.R. Radcliffe-Browns methodological and methodical potential of structural functionalism; 2. Bronislaw Kasper Malinowskis theory of culture and its methodological potential; 3. Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Browns theory of society and the consequent methodological program; 4. Social engineering as a goal of cultural anthropology. The methods and methodologies of applied culture studies, classical for foreign culture science, within the frames of structural functionalism are discussed in these materials of the seminar in connection with their potential used for solution of the problems of the Russian culture studies and reality.