POWER AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON

The purpose of the article is to analyze the socio-philosophical and cultural aspects of power. This article discusses political culture as a structural element of culture. Power is the central element of culture. Power in the article refers to public administration, which is an intangible, but practical form of activity and culture. This form of activity depends on the material processes in society, but at the same time it forms all other spheres of life. In this regard, the article defends the thesis that power is the second form of culture after material production. Power as a culture is a culture of social management, the culturological status of power is determined by how public administration fits into the system of people's life, as well as by the positive impact it has on the development of society. Power is the main element of the intangible superstructure of society, which, in turn, determines the vector of development of the entire spiritual superstructure. Precisely because power determines the entire non-material superstructure of society, it is itself a cultural phenomenon.