Sociocultural formations: philosophical aspect

The article considers one aspect of the philosophical analysis dealing with dynamic moments of a form in the context of spiritual culture. Different approaches to the problem of socio-cultural formations are reviewed, which allowed the author to reveal their heuristic potential. The author discusses theoretical and practical relevance of the socio-cultural formations in the modern Russia, since here within a short period, a complex process of renewal of the social and cultural reality and forms of human subjectivity is carried out.