IDEOLOGY AS A MECHANISM OF CONSTRUCTING SPACE: EMPIRE VS MODERN STATE

decentralization, universalization and particularism, citizenship and cosmopolitanism, sacralization o f power and religions factor, marking o f space and its symbolization, dichotomy of law and traditions. Conclusions o f the research. The structural-functional and normative-value characteristics of ideology that have an impact on the process offormation of the socio­ political order within a specific space are determined. The definition of imperial ideology is outlined, which is presented as a tool for organizing space, based on the mythologizing of the present, particularism and cosmopolitanism, and focuses on the construction of the own imperial world, in which the construction of the imperial order is taking place.