Some Aspects of the Research Conception as “Tradition” in the Structure of Social and Cultural Sphere

The aim of the work is to generalize the historical and theoretical results of the contemporary studies such as dynamic of the historical phenomenon “tradition” in the structure of the social and cultural sphere.Research methodology is based on the heuristic method of systematizing the synergy of Ukrainian and foreign historiography, which opens the process of forming social, legal, philosophical, cultural thought of the substantial concept as “tradition” in general and the process, which socializes the results of the common social and cultural activity of humanity, in particular.The results may be the theoretical justification of the European experience of culturological process of forming the scientific view of the emergence and transformation of social and cultural traditions as multi-purpose knowledge for research; in culturological research the authors use the comparative methods, mutual influences, and interpenetration of cultures and cultural innovations of ethno-futurism problems.The novelty consists in systematizing the theoretical studies of the concept as “tradition” and its role in preserving, accumulation, transformation results of the human activities in the field of spiritual, material, social and cultural heritage of the mankind from the standpoint of cultural studies.In the conclusion on the basis of the stated historiography the paper determines the theoretical conception of “social and cultural tradition” of the nation; the historical process of the inheritance which carries the accumulated European, national, spiritual and material values that make up the scientific knowledge of the results of the common human activities in general and each nation, in particular.Keywords: social and cultural sphere, tradition, concepts, transformation.