On the Significance of Homo Traditum for Modern Culture

The worldwide crisis of present-day market civilization has many backgrounds of objective (natural-climatic and economic cycles) and subjective nature (politics and spiritual interests). In such situations, politicians and analysts turn to fundamental, existential issues — mentality, morality, the essence of man, etc. The most important characteristic of society, which determines the state of the economy, political and social stability through a feedback system, is culture. From the point of view of the dominant position in spiritual culture, mass culture and counterculture differ. The possibility of attraction of anthropological principle to the problem of culture and ideology is regarded. The paper proffers the application of the methodology of moral-religious neo-institutionalism and the Homo traditum model concept for contemporary Russian culture.