Academic Culture: Some Aspects of Sociological Interpretation

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the phenomenon of academic culture, which is simultaneously a factor and an indicator of the modernization of the system of domestic education. There is an analysis of existing domestic and foreign approaches to studying the structure and definition of the academic culture concept, in particular, philosophical, psychological-pedagogical, cultural, etc. The competence approach to understanding this phenomenon is characterized. The existing ideas of academic culture structure and the academic environment as a kind of "space" for its existence are expanded. There is an attempt of generalization of the interpretations of "academic culture" nitions and its author's definition, as a comblex of behavior patterns that are acquired in the academic space in the process of adaptation to the external sociocultural environment and internal integration and are shared by most representatives of the academic environment. The author claims that academic culture is a complex composition of important values and principles, norms, traditions, action modes that are accepted by the academic community, and the formation and reproduction of its basic principles is associated not only with the university environment, but with the institution of higher education in general.