PHENOMENON OF PROVINCE AND PROVINCIAL CULTURE IN THE SOCIOCULTURAL ASPECT
The article justifies the role of province and provincial culture in sociocultural development of the society, civilization. Relying on S. V. Pirogov’s thesis on typical for the province marginality syndrome the author shows that provincial culture, firstly, provides variability, diversity and “strong heterogeneity” of national culture and, secondly, in modernization periods comes out as a mechanism to protect the society from its negative consequences and to preserve cultural identity.