THE UNIVERSAL AND THE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATIONS: THE ROLE OF CULTURAL AND VALUE FACTORS
In the article the value-oriented methodology to the analysis of multidimensional developmental trajectory of civilizations, basic on the revision of the mythological ideas about the role of cultural factors, and ignoring their importance. It is shown that the contradictory mechanism of institutionalization of norms and rules regulating the development of economic and socio-political processes in different countries and regions, first, is a form of manifestation of universal ethical principles of life of each society, and second, expresses the local characteristics of the implementation of the balance of conflicting cultural values prevailing in these structural conditions.