Azerbaijan National Academy of Science

The conference on "Social aspects of folklore: communication and virtual tradition" was held at ANAS Institute of Folklore on December 28.

Academician Teymur Karimli, academician-secretary of the Division of Humanitarian Sciences of ANAS, noted that Azerbaijani folklore is one of the most intensive developmental areas in the field of theoretical-methodological research.

Academician Teymur Karimli, characterizing Folklore as a rich cultural treasure, spoke about the importance of investigating multidisciplinary and sociological aspect to reveal its essence. Academician Teymur Karimli emphasized that in the context of modern globalization, especially in the transition to the information society, the study of social aspects of folklore in terms of communicative and virtuosity is of particular scientific relevance.

Director of the Folklore Institute, academician Mukhtar Kazimoglu said that in recent years one of the important scientific directions of the institute was the study of theoretical and methodological problems of folklore studies in the form of new scientific paradigms. The speaker said that folklore should be investigated on the basis of the people and the social environment that created it, stressing that social and cultural processes are interconnected here.

Dean of Philology Faculty of Baku State University, Ph.D. in Philology Elchin Mammadov spoke at the event. He said that the Academy's recent activities in the field of social-humanitarian sciences, especially in the context of global challenges, have a positive impact on the educational process.

At the conference, PhD on Philology Sarkhan Khaveri delivered a report entitled "Communication as a social condition of the functional structure of folklore". The concept of "communication" in folklore studies as a central object of scientific research is conditioned by the theoretical-methodological approach, which is based on "executive-oriented folklore paradigm", "contextualism", "performance" and so forth.

PhD in Philology Safa Garayev made a report entitled "The propagandist power of the Edip complex: from psychological conflict to socio-cultural norms.

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