CULTURAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF DEVELOPING SOCIAL SOLIDARITY IN MODERN SOCIETY.

This article is dedicated to the issue of social solidarity at the present times. The authors analyze the main scientific works devoted to this issue in order to study the nature of this phenomenon. The work evaluates the main approaches to the notion of "social solidarity". In the article, the authors come to the conclusion that solidarity processes have different scales of manifestation and include both constructive communication between individuals and efficient functional interaction of separate social subsystems that aim at achieving common objectives. Depending on the scale of solidarity manifestation, its leading factors can be cultural processes and regulatory activities of the government. The nature of interaction between the leading factors of solidarity development indicates implementing the principles of functional complementarity of political and cultural processes. The combination of direct regulative activity and indirect influence on the social structure through culture and social consciousness is the most efficient strategy of political regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]