Modeling of a Megaregion's Cultural Code and Methodological Guidelines of Aletology

The article “Modeling of a megaregion’s cultural code and methodological guidelines of aletology” is focused on providing the reasons for the necessity to develop scientifically based models of a megaregion’s cultural code. The goal is to choose a method of modeling of cultural code of a megaregion as a socio-cultural integrity. The central principle is that of cultural centrism integrated with the requirements of the systemic, structural-and-functional approaches and cross-cultural analysis. Theoretical results of cultural studies, philosophy, and psychology are subject to comparison in synchronic and diachronic aspects. The research is based on thew practice of the semiotic approach of the Russian scientific school. The authors have noticed a heuristic significance of the aletology methodology in solving cognitive tasks determined by the practice of a region’s sociocultural transformation. The article may be a subject of interest for the specialists in the field of sociology of management and practitioners involved in a megaregion’s image formation, finding the ways of its social and cultural unity. Having analyzed the conceptual terms describing the process of a megaregion’s cultural code formation, methodology of the research, and the semantic content of cultural code, the author comes to the conclusion that a region’s historically evolving ontological unity is not a sufficient ground for functioning of cultural code as the ideological and theoretical basis of unity of a megaregion’s segments in today’s dynamic conditions. The model-based approach using the aletology principles is preferable for a task-oriented transformation of a megaregion’s spiritual space

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