The principle of neo-traditionalism in society. Functioning. Description. Typologization
The article examines three variants of neo-traditionalism that take place in the historical diachronic perspective of the study. To analyze each of the options, the phenomenon of neo-traditionalism was considered in the course of its history. Each of the options and its different properties are considered. These are mainly the features of the stay of neo-tradition in time. The typologization principle described in the article can be considered as a way to distinguish between neo-traditions according to important characteristics of usefulness for society, neutrality or harmfulness and signs of absolute novelty or modernization in a particular period of time of its existence. Typologization based on usefulness for society was carried out for the first time. Attention is paid to the main functions, since through typology, the phenomenon and principles are analyzed in general terms, which is also a scientific novelty. This is done in order to discover the reasons why society returns to lost traditions, reviving them, or rejects existing traditions, deliberately excluding them from the socio-cultural context. From the analysis of the existence of traditions in society, a fundamentally new term is derived - «the principle of neo-traditionalism», which, in turn, is an attempt to describe some of the processes in society and its states that accompany this phenomenon or are its cause to one degree or another of involvement. The result of the study can be considered a way of carrying out typologization and thus (method) of studying the stages of the existence of a tradition in society and its influence on society as a whole.