Festive culture as a way of social consolidation
The article is devoted to festive culture as one of the ways of social consolidation. In the work, factors that hamper the consolidation of society, a new classification of holidays is proposed, the criterion of which can be the type of social group. The article deals with the socio-consolidating holidays of modern Russia: the cultural and philosophical analysis. It is proved that festive culture is a powerful factor of ideological consolidation of the nation, providing spiritual and cultural identification of the population, socialization of the younger generation, reproduction and transfer of spiritual and moral values.