НАУКА И ОБЩЕСТВО: ПУБЛИЧНАЯ ИСТОРИЯ В КОНТЕКСТЕ ИСТОРИЧЕСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ ЭПОХИ ГЛОБАЛИЗАЦИИ
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: PUBLIC HISTORY IN THE CONTEXT OF HISTORICAL CULTURE OF THE GLOBALIZATION ERA

Summary/Abstract: In the 19th century, which is known as the historical age, the high degree of trust to history and the social prestige of historical science were based on the idea entrenched in the public consciousness about the continuity of historical development of human civilization and the unique opportunities for using the past experience as a means to solve problems in the present and build “the bright future”. However, understanding of the dramatic experience of the 20th century undermined the belief in the usefulness of history. This situation was greatly aggravated by the intensification of globalization processes at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The problems of interaction between academic (professional) history and the general public of concrete societies, as well as changes in their relations in the context of deep social transformations turned out to be at the center of attention of many researchers. Public history purposefully overcomes alienation from “the uninitiated”, which is typical for historical science of the 20th century; it strives to restore the interest of the consumer to the production of historians, as well as to propagate professional standards, historical knowledge, and proper understanding of the specific character of “historian’s craft” among the wide circles of non-professionals.

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