Features and Problems of Social-Cultural Development of Kazakhstan.

Abstract

The author explores the characteristics and problems of socio-cultural development of Kazakhstan, linking the need for their successful solutions to the implementation of a whole range
of vital modernization tasks. The main challenges of socio-cultural development of Kazakhstan
author considers and examines the following issues: 1) the dialogue of cultures as an effective
instrument of nation-building, and 2) the type of rationality, common ground in the cultures of
the major culture-forming ethnic groups in Kazakhstan, and 3) the problems of consolidation and
the new identity in Kazakhstan, and 4) a new system of core values and a new understanding of
the phenomenon of spirituality.