Proposed textbook - author's attempt to provide students with specialty 031401 "Culturology" , Bachelors of the direction 031400 "Culturology" and masters can complete the presentation of the material on the main methods of studying culture , approaches and practices of analyzing cultural texts in accordance with the requirements of the State Educational Standard of Higher Professional Education in this specialty . The presentation of the educational material is based on a specific scheme: the theoretical description of each of the methods in the study of culture is accompanied by a methodological algorithm built on the material of specific texts of researchers. The textbook contains a description of well-established research methods in the scientific world (comparative-historical, Historical and Typological , Structural and functional , Semiotic and Others , Synergistic method in research of cultural texts , Post-structuralist practices of text interpretation (deconstruction, Discourse, gender). The textbook is intended for university students, beginning researchers in the field of studying the theory and history of culture .