Solving the problems of modernization of Russia includes not only the transformation of basic economic, social, and political institutions, but also profound changes in the socio-cultural sphere of society, the formation of a value-normative complex adequate to modernity. This section of the modernization theme is the subject of socio-cultural discourse, the analysis of the methodological specifics of which is devoted to this article. The author focuses on the differences between the versions of socio-cultural modernization of Russia in comparison with the concept of "multiple modernity", showing its methodological potential in solving the problems of modernization of non-Western societies.
