POLITICAL FESTIVAL AS A MECHANISM OF INTERPRETATION OF POLITICAL REALITY

Political festival - is a phenomenon of political culture. Political culture is considered as a subjective element of the system, directed mainly on the interpretation of the objective sphere, - on the giving a significance to the phenomena. By valuables, ideals and norms (which are the cognitive units) political culture constructs the screen of the world in the sense of the individual and society and accordingly organizes the cognitive process in this society. In this aspect cognitive mechanisms of culture are explained by the category of the meaning. Culture organizes the process of cognition by giving a meaning to the objects of cognition. Political festival is represented as a cognitive scheme, constructed in the cultural context and declaring to it. By the cognitive instruments this phenomenon interpreters the world through the value - marking context, which is useful for the power representatives. The organization of the special world with territorial and temporal characteristics, replete with cultural and cognitive content is always accompanied with appearance of predictable and mono-variable cognition. Therefore political festival is effective mechanism of the work with the meaning, so of the interpretation of the reality.