Conceptual and theoretical prerequisites for considering impressing as a socio-cultural phenomenon

The object of the study is an impressing phenomenon with a complex biosociocultural nature. References to it in the scientific literature, given its "closely related" relationship with imprinting, primarily evoke associations with its biological nature. However, attention is drawn to the recent growing interest in imprinting / impressing representatives of a wide range of social sciences and humanities. The shift of emphasis in the biosociocultural nature of impressing from its bio-component to the socio-cultural one becomes obvious and necessary. However, the emergence of the concept of "imprinting/ impressing" beyond the limits of natural science knowledge, as a rule, is not accompanied by any reflection on the conceptual and theoretical grounds for considering the phenomenon behind it in the social subject field. Accordingly, the subject of the presented research is the conceptual and theoretical prerequisites for considering impressing as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Modern scientific ideas about the complex unity of nature, society, culture and the place of man in it, which can serve as a theoretical basis for socio-cultural research of impressing, are analyzed and synthesized. Deductive, axiomatic methods and the method of analogy are used in the development of the conceptual foundations of the study of impressing, based on the specifics of modern socio-cultural knowledge. The main results of the work include, firstly, the identified trends in modern knowledge about culture and the person in it, which allow us to assert that the socio-cultural analysis of impressing has theoretical and methodological grounds. The key of the described trends is the idea of a multifaceted and unstable interpenetration of the natural principle, sociality and culture. Special emphasis is placed on the tendency to consider culture as a product of the psyche and the human psyche as a natural and cultural phenomenon. Secondly, based on the trends identified in modern socio-cultural knowledge, and by analogy with them, the conceptual foundations for considering impressing as a complex biosociocultural phenomenon in the functioning of which the socio-cultural component plays a key role are proposed. Conclusions are drawn about the directions of further study of impressing, which is supposed to be debatable, but necessary. The consideration of the conceptual foundations of the study of impressing as a socio-cultural phenomenon seems to be new and theoretically significant for the socio-humanitarian sciences as a whole, since it opens up the possibility of a more fruitful multidimensional understanding of the little-studied phenomenon.