Methodological principles of culturology: historiographical aspect

The purpose of this article is to analyze the main publications on the issues of genesis and formation of methodological foundations of culturology as a scientific field of knowledge. At the same time, considerable attention is paid to the contribution of scientists of the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture in the process of formation and establishment of culturology not only as a scientific field of knowledge and its methodology, but also as an educational program for higher education. The methodological basis for writing this article is the culturological approach (method), which accumulates a set of principles and methods of the humanities, which were adapted to conduct scientific researches on cultural issues. The result of scientific research of this article is demonstration of the achievements of modern cultural historiography in the formation of its methodological paradigm, its arsenal of principles and methods of scientific research. The scientific novelty of this article is to confirm the view that no scientific field of humanities, including culturology, should limit research only to its scientific tools. Each science chooses from a diverse methodological arsenal of the humanities those principles and methods that it needs and is suitable for studying the problems of its scientific field. At the same time, each science, including culturology, adapts the methods and principles of other sciences to their research. The practical significance of the results of the analysis of modern historiography of the problems of methodological principles of culturology as a field of scientific and educational knowledge is that the materials of the article can be useful in further research of methodological principles of culturology. At the same time, the materials of the article can be used in the process of preparation of scientific and educational programs and methodical manuals devoted to the courses of culturology and its methodology.