Contents Introduction 5 I The General Principles and Subject-Matter of the Sociology of Culture 1 The Sociology of Culture as a Special Discipline 9 2 The History of the Sociology of Culture 19 3 Culture and Systematic Intellectual Production 30 4 The Components of Intellectual Culture 39 5 The Functions of Culture 52 6 Culture in the System of Social Regulation 65 7 Society and Intellectual Production 84 8 The Ethnic, National and Civilisation Planes 112 of Culture II General Sociological Principles in the Study of Western and Eastern Civilisations 9 Modern Western Culture 126 10 Eastern Cultures and the Major World Religions 143 11 Secular Cultures in Eastern Civilisations 177 12 Colonialism and Culture 194 III The Cultural Sociology of Developing Countries 13 The Formation of Cultural Sociology in Newly-Independent Countries 14 Present-Day Cultural Processes in the Developing Countries 15 Changes in the Religious Sphere 16 The Principles and Problems of Cultural Development in the Newly-Independent Countries 17 Social and Cultural Change in India 18 The Interaction of Cultures 19 Culture and Personality Conclusion Name Index Subject Index