social institution

Introducton. The article examines the social institution of pilgrimage as a phenomenon of the Russian cultural code in its evolution and formation of the tradition of social practice. Theoretical analysis. The author uses both the methodology of cultural research and the approaches of the sociology of knowledge, philosophical-anthropological and civilizational analysis for a holistic understanding of the wandering phenomenon.

The article provides discussion of substantial and communicative models of sociality. The author notes that each of these models describes only one aspect of the social being. That’s why there is a need of searching of new models of sociality. The theory of institutional matrices is one of such models.