CULTURAL DETERMINATION OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDIVIDUAL (SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS)

Today, the intercultural communicative competence is an object of research of various scientific fields; this fact determines the variation and the versatility of its concepts. On the one hand, it proves the significance and the relevance of this phenomenon, but on the other hand, it generates some sort of disagreement in defining its essence and the factors determining its development specific character. The analysis of psycho-pedagogical conditions of formation of the intercultural communicative competence is associated with the research of socio-psychological factors of its development. Culture is considered one of the key categories in this context. The paper analyses various definitions of the concept of “culture” from the perspective of relations with the social interaction on intracultural and intercultural levels, and considers the issues of correlation of the concepts of “enculturation” and “socialization”, and the enculturation and ethnocentrism interrelation. The author made a conclusion that, in the line of intercultural interaction, culture is the complex multilevel system determining the individual formation and development. Ethnic culture is specified as the context determining the specific character of the individual socialization and enculturation processes and their results.