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The scientific article sets the tasks of revealing the nature and characteristics of the current state of culture and values of Kazakhstani society and identifying their spiritual and moral potential for implementation in conditions of the new Kazakhstani reality and tasks of sustainable development. The authors reveal the place and role of normative and value content of the traditions of the culture of the Kazakh people and ethnic groups of Kazakhstan in the processes of modernization of public consciousness. The article indicates the importance of a comparative analysis of Turkic, European, Islamic and domestic cultural values in the context of the concept of sustainable development, identifying universality, concretizing the features of the Kazakh value discourse, researching ontological significance of religious values in the hierarchy of cultural values of Kazakhstan. The authors emphasize that the philosophical and sociological dimension of the cultural and value paradigm of Kazakhstan and the practice of its implementation through the prism of spiritual and moral development, analysis of risks and emerging opportunities in the field of science, education, digital reality in the context of sustainable development of society is very important in identifying the humanistic potential of modern Kazakh culture and its value bases.
Key words: spirituality, history, culture, worldview, modernization, nation, value, civilization, ethnos.