Cultural responsibility: to the question of the definition of the concept

Responsibility as a phenomenon of social life and characterization of a person is studied by various sciences, but most of all it has been studied in the framework of jurisprudence. The legal understanding of responsibility, despite the fact that it reflects its functioning not only in the field of law, but also morality, is insufficient for its application to the analysis of the functioning of responsibility in the field of culture, and hence its adaptation to cultural studies. So, when you turn to morality, which is certainly a characteristic of human culture, jurisprudence, representing morality as the basis of law, resorts only to describing the historical forms of development of responsibility, without distinguishing it from the law. Even when responsibility is positioned as an institution, it is also seen as a mechanism for punishing for harm, where the only difference, if it is possible to express “moral responsibility”, from its legal version is that the first is carried out without proper verification of the misconduct. Moral liability is opposed to legal responsibility as an objective examination of all the subtleties of the situation in the form of accusatory and acquittal circumstances, with the subsequent passing of a fair verdict. The sociological understanding of responsibility, arising from the application of the sociological method to the analysis of the responsibility generated by ordinary consciousness, for example, woven into customs, would seem to be closest to the cultural interpretation of it. This is due to the fact that customs are the subject of study in cultural studies. However, sociologists deduce the origin of responsibility, for example, from blood feud. The definition of cultural responsibility proposed in this article is constructed by defining the human content of an act and incorporating the dialectic of positive and negative responsibility.