Abstract

The article presents the author’s interpretation of the old problem of the correlation between Culture and Civilization. According to this interpretation, from the very beginning of human History, within the Society as a whole, two opposite intentions took shape – one for the unlimited development of man and inter-human relations, and the other for the stabilization and conservation of what was achieved and tested. These intentions become tendencies, as a result
of which two stable dimensions are formed in the public as a whole – the Sociality directed towards infinity and the finite and relatively self-contained Society. We can talk about the coexistence of socio-cultural and civilization-socium dimensions. These measurements are not reducible to each other and are not deducible from each other. At a certain stage of History, an ontological inversion occurs: the relationship between them is reversed. Since then, in History, the social dimension has dominated the social dimension. The latter is realized and exists under the multilayer strata of the structures of the former.

Key words: Culture, Civilization, Macrocosm, Microcosm, Man, Society, History, cultural-social dimension, civilizational-social dimension, ontological inversion.