Philosophical and sociological aspects of tolerance and its role in the process of cross-cultural communication
The paper proposes a comparative analysis of scientific works of philosophers, sociologists, political figures on the issues of tolerance in the process of intercultural communication relations. Also various philosophical and sociological approaches to the outlined problems, in particular, depending on the object of study - the dialogical, communicative, dynamic and pragmatic (in the philosophical literature), and three major research areas of tolerance during the interaction between different social groups, international and intercultural contacts (in the sociological literature) are identified and characterized. Basing on systematic approaches to the problem understanding of the concept of «tolerance» in different languages, regulations, types of tolerance («positive» - «negative») are discussed, and at the same time, author's own understanding of the term is offered and the ways to form students' tolerance to different cultures, ethnicities, races, religions, etc. are outlined due to the introduction of certain forms, methods and tasks of cultural and communicative nature in the educational process.