On the issue of synergetic justification of the crisis as a socio-cultural phenomenon

The article dwells upon the nature of socio-cultural crisis, the conditions of its origin and course; studies the legitimacy of applying the synergetic approach to the analysis of crisis phenomena while taking into account the specifics of anthropo-sociocultural systems; develops the existential criterion of socio-cultural crisis, closely related to the axiological aspect of human being. This criterion is the inner self-perception of a person within the culture itself. Furthermore, external factors triggering crisis phenomena are listed. The role of crisis is evaluated, and crisis is understood as a re-arrangement of the inner core of culture. A hypothetical model is derived on the basis of philosophical research by A.S. Karmin, the methodology of synergetic research in social-humanitarian knowledge by M.S. Kagan, M. Buber’s philosophical anthropology, clash-of-civilizations theory by C. Huntington, etc. Methodological vector for the further study of crisis phenomena in social reality is defined.