examination questions
Entrance examination questions for the master program in theory and history of culture
1
Culture and Nature: approach to the study of the problem
Russian Formalism in studying culture: V.Y. Propp
2
Culture and language: basic research approaches
The contribution of M. Bakhtin to the culture research
3
“Culture” and “Civilization”: origins and development of the concepts
R. Bart’s approaches to the culture research
4
Mass, popular and high culture: research approaches
Anthropological approach in studying culture: C. Lévi-Strauss and C. Geertz
5
Media culture: research approaches
The problems of studying culture in the works of Y.M. Lotman
6
Art as a phenomenon of culture: research approaches
Approaches to the modern culture research in the works of J. Baudrillard
7
Science as a phenomenon of culture: research approaches
Psychoanalytical interpretations of culture (S. Freud, C. Jung, E. Fromm)
8
Culture and religion: research approaches
Semiotic approach in studying culture of U. Eco
9
Antiquity in the history of culture
R. Bart’s approaches to the culture research
10
Средневековье в истории культуры: основные подходы к изучению. Middle Ages in the history of culture: basic research approaches
Approaches to the modern culture research in the works of J. Baudrillard
11
Renaissance in the history of culture: basic research approaches
Specificity of the methodology of the social-human knowledge: approaches of H. Rickert und M. Weber
12
Cultures of Enlightenment Romanticism: research approaches
Anthropological approach in studying culture: C. Lévi-Strauss and C. Geertz
13
Art Nouveau as a cultural paradigm
The problems of studying culture in the works of Y.M. Lotman
14
Russian culture before the 18th
century: basic research approaches
Psychoanalytical interpretations of culture (S. Freud, C. Jung, E. Fromm)
15
Russian culture of the 18th
– beginning of the 20th century: basic research approaches
Semiotic approach in studying culture of U. Eco
16
Soviet culture: basic research approaches
Specificity of the methodology of the social-human knowledge: approaches of H. Rickert und M. Weber
17
Theories of postindustrial society and globalization
Russian Formalism in studying culture: V.Y. Propp
18
Theories of information society
The contribution of M. Bakhtin to the culture research
