CULTURAL NEUROSCIENCE: A STUDY OF SOCIAL PROCESSES AT THE MACRO LEVEL?

Danilkina Daria S.

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This article analyzes a new interdisciplinary direction - "cultural neuroscience" with the possibility of studying social processes at the macro level. Cultural neuroscience is primarily concerned with finding the neural foundations that underlie differences. The author of the accepted method of the applied method of multiple regression, aimed at finding numerical dependencies between variables, contains a limitation - the impossibility of establishing limitations. Methodological remarks to the used index of cultural values, proposed by Hofstede in assessing individualism-collectivism, are indicated, and methodological errors that lead to irreproducibility of the results of this study are shown. The author comes to the conclusion that conclusions about the neurodeterminacy of collective life are made on the basis of extrapolation of the results obtained on the basis of individual differences at the macrosocial level, thus, a full study of the interaction process within the framework of an isolated scientific approach, at the moment, is impossible, which, in turn, actualizes the request for the interdisciplinary nature of such studies, including a philosophical understanding of the problem. It is also shown that the complexity of studying interaction processes by physical scientific methods is limited not only technically, but also due to the complexity, speed and unpredictability and uniqueness of this process in real life.

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