POLITICAL CULTURE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: FEATURES OF INTERACTION
The article considered questions of a ratio of modern civil society and culture which is not only understood in the broadest sense - as size identical to society, but also in narrow - as legal culture, political culture, business culture, social culture etc. A research objective - to reveal features of interaction of political culture and civil society which generate difficult and contradictory social interactions between the state and civil society. The author gave the social state or the state of general prosperity which emergence in countries of Western Europe and the USA in the second half of the XX century directly connected with civil society as an example of interaction of political culture of the modern state and civil society. In that case strengthening of civil society promotes also strengthening of the state. The author emphasized that here it is necessary to consider: and in the conditions of civil society negative tendencies - resistance to reforms, egoism, fundamentalism, even separate forms of terrorism and extremism can be. In such conditions civil society shouldn't destroy political culture of the democratic state.