Methods of studying culture

The proposed tutorial is the author"s attempt to provide the most complete investment of material on the main methods of studying culture, approaches and practices for analyzing cultural texts in accordance with the requirements of the state educational standard of higher professional education.
The presentation of the educational material is based on a specific scheme: the theoretical description of each of the methods in the study of culture is accompanied by a methodological algorithm, lined on the material of specific texts of researchers. The study manual contains a description of the research methods established in the scientific world (comparative historical, historical and typological, structural-functional, semantic, etc), the synergistic method in studies of cultural texts, poststructuralist practices of text interpretation (deconstruction, discourse, gender)