The need in the idea of integrity of a society, being under conditions of transformation, demands the socio-cultural approach, i.e., the comprehension
of the society on the basis of the unity of culture and the social. One of the methods of such an interpretation is the definition of the notion of a societal process.
Thus, a societal process is the field of socio-cultural interactions on the scale of a society (including societal-functional structures) which has a certain
vector and is stably reproduced in a certain temporal interval.
