Kopiyevs'ka O. Social and cultural aspects of organization parks activities in foreign countries

The dissertation is devoted to determination of the historical and theoretical preconditions for formation the park culture as social and cultural system, its modern state, tendencies of development; the substantiation of the concept "park culture " is given as an indivisible part of leisure and recreation system, which is strongly interrelated to general processes in cultural and social life of the society. The social and cultural aspects of increasing the efficiency of park activity are revealed; the peculiarities and laws of its functioning are determined, the priority value of parks among the other social and cultural institutions, their integrated structure, and multifunctionality are convincingly proved; the principles, functions, among which are: recreational; rehabilitational; cultural; educational; leisure; communicative, and ecological; directions and technologies, models of cultural, educational, and leisure activity of different types of parks and recreational zones are considered.