The role of the institute of culture in the formation of ethnic and civilizational identity
The article provides a rationale for the institutional understanding of culture. Considering culture (on the example of ethnoculture) as a social institution in a broad (a set of norms, rules, traditions and rituals that regulate the life and behavior of people) and in a narrow (specific organizations that carry out the functions of preserving, transmitting and developing culture and culturally significant phenomena) sense , the author interprets the Eurasian civilization as a synthesis of ethnic cultures with a close value core, which arose in the process of interethnic interactions between the subjects of the macroregion, which actualizes the significance of the Eurasian civilizational identity in the era of global transformations of the modem world order, within which not only the symbiosis and synthesis of closely related cultures is actualized, but also the confrontation and rejection of alien cultures.