TO THE QUESTION OF RESEARCHING FOLKLORE AS A SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEM

Abstract

In modern society, there is a significant advance of theory from the practice. In the context of the ongoing processes of transformation of folklore, accompanied by both the emergence of new objects of research and the actualization of interdisciplinary research, it seems timely to present a problem statement of improving the analytical tools of the science of oral folk art. The aim of the study is to consider the multifaceted phenomenon of folklore as a complex self-organizing system-organism, its relevance with the basic principles of synergetics, and then to generalize the positive experience of using the synergetic method in related humanitarian fields of scientific knowledge. The work uses an interdisciplinary systematic approach, contrastive- comparative and inductive analyzes. The author concludes that the general scientific method of synergetics can be applied as a research strategy in folklore, it is capable to shed light on the problem of the nature of the elemental self-organization of folklore.