Types of Intergenerational Communication as a Mechanism of Socio-cultural Continuity

The purpose of the article is to characterize the essence of communication between different generations in the process of development of society, due to its specificity and differences from all other types of social communications. For neither professional nor interpersonal nor pedagogical nor mass communication is as much a source of historical development. The research methodology is to apply general scientific methods and approaches of research, in particular dialectical, which makes it possible to consider social and communicative processes in their organic integrity, to analyse the essence of communication between different generations in concrete-historical social systems. To find out how intergenerational communication is changing together with the development of society, and to identify the contradictions in the space of this communication. The relevance of the study is dictated by the fact that there is communication gap between generations, the space of mutual rejection, rejection is formed, and a “zone of silence” arises. The scientific novelty is to reveal the essence of communication in different types of societies according to the typology of M. Mead and M. Petrov. Conclusions. It is found that the processes of intergenerational communication occur in society, as a rule, spontaneously, depending on its type, power structure, socio-economic relations, etc. It has been found that the lack of intergenerational communication between the past, present and future becomes a condition for the emergence of certain destructive elements, since the focus only on the present and the specifics of modern socialization breaks the dialogue between generations. It is proved that in the conditions of crisis of social development in the intergenerational communicative space begins to form in the process of socialization of generations. Therefore, to work out ways to prevent heredity breaks in the culture there is a need for special attention to the study of conflicts in intergenerational communication.