CULTURE AND PSEUDO-CULTURE OF PROVINCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY RUSSIANS’ PERCEPTION
The article analyzes the concepts “culture” and “pseudo-culture” by the material of the data of a sociological research devoted to cultural preferences of residents of Nizhny Novgorod. Semantic content of provincialism is actualized by the general state of the Russian society and self-perception of provincial residents moving further away from traditional culture towards pseudo-culture. In this regard, the paper considers the concepts: mass and provincial culture, Europeanized and original culture, active and passive consumption of culture, as well as singles out features of the Russian province culture.