DISCIPLINARY CAUSED VARIATIONS IN CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES
The article analyzes the disciplinary specificities of cross-cultural researches conducted in the field of social and humanitarian Sciences. Although such studies have the same name in social psychology, social anthropology and sociology, the author shows that although cross-cultural research contains certain similarities, there are significant differences in different disciplines. So, in socio-cultural anthropology cross-cultural research is based on a wide range of cultures described in detail by ethnographers. Sociopsychological cross-cultural research is focused on the study of mechanisms of communication between the psyche of the individual and its culture. Sociological cross-cultural research is characterized by a comparison of the value systems of different national and cultural communities, which is used to explain the nature of cultural phenomena and processes. Special emphasis in the article is made on the cross-cultural study of the axiological foundations of culture, which constitutes as a polydisciplinary basis of such research. The analysis is relevant for the understanding of the place and role of cross-cultural studies in the structure of social and humanitarian Sciences in general and for the search of grounds for expansion of the disciplinary field of cross-cultural research, which, as a rule, belong to the field of psychological science.