TRADITIONAL VALUES: TO THE PROBLEM OF DEFINITION OF THE CONCEPT IN TERMS OF A SYNERGISTIC APPROACH
The article analyses the concept of traditional values that represent the historical social experience, perceived and passed from generation to generation. Having a social quality, as a kind of social phenomenon, traditional values reflect the dialectical and systemic regularities in the development of society, regardless of what configuration the later would take. The main criterion of traditional values is the order despite the transformation processes (chaos) that affect the changes of value orientations.