Rural Local Community: A Functional Analysis of Socio-Cultural Development

The study of the dynamics of the socio-cultural development of rural local communities under the condi­tions of multipolarity, multidirectional and asynchronous changes in their socio-economic space, from the Шмаков В. С. Сельские локальные сообщества 145 point of view of the systemic approach, makes it possible to present the complex processes of rural social and cultural development. Based on the typology of functions that determine the basic strategies for the socio-cultural development of rural communities, a simulation model is proposed for analyzing the dy­namics of the socio-cultural development of the village. The model has a sufficiently high degree of ade­quacy, verification and contributes to the formation of scientifically based conclusions. A simulation-based agent model enables the transition to the simulation of socio-cultural phenomena and processes, and the construction of their forecast scenarios.

Keywords: rural local communities, socio-cultural dynamics, functional analysis, simulation model.