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The purpose of the article is to focus on the theoretical developments of Ukrainian cultural studies over the last decade. The methodology consists in the application of general scientific principles of objectivity and historicism, systematization and generalization of the researched problem, and also the analytical method is used - at studying historical and culturological literature on a research theme; historical and cultural - to highlight the holistic "images-concepts" of creative activity of the individual in the historical dynamics of Ukrainian culture and a comprehensive cultural approach based on interdisciplinary links of humanities. Scientific novelty. It consists in the fact that the structure of the Ukrainian humanities is analyzed, which in its historical and modern movement has a self-sufficient and self-valuable character. Conclusions. It is emphasized that the active development of culturological knowledge requires both the fixation of already corrected problems and the identification of new problems in the logic of the further research process. among other "structural elements" are humanities, separately, socio-political knowledge, philosophy, aesthetics, history, and theories of religion, art history, and others. The "boundary space" where the theoretical interests of culturology are transformed with other humanities is outlined.

The purpose of the article is to analyze the conditions and stages in the formation of the conceptual-categorical framework of cultural sciences. The methodology is based on general scientific approaches such as terminological and systematic. The purpose and objectives of the publication define the use of such research methods as analysis, synthesis, generalization, which made it possible to clarify the meaning of a number of concepts and terms. Scientific Novelty. The degree of scientific research of the topic is concentrated in identifying the problems of interaction between the conceptual and categorical frameworks in various scientific fields, namely, history, philosophy, philology, aesthetics, ethics, art history, and logic, to shape up the research space. We conceptualize the idea of "formal logical structures": that is not a mechanical combination of concepts or categories, but developing a new system adapted to solving theoretical problems of cultural studies. The question about the validity of the ―borrowing‖ process that allows cultural studies to analyze theoretical problems related to other humanitarian fields is also touched upon. Conclusion. So, among the other Ukrainian human sciences, cultural studies are developing quite actively and dynamically, constantly expanding its research space; its activity and dynamism of the cultural knowledge ―accumulation‖ determine those problems requiring special attention of modern scientists; in particular, the identification of the structural layering of the conceptual and categorical framework of cultural sciences.