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This article focuses on the processes of transferring the cultural elements between different racial, ethnic and religious groups. The transmission of various cultural products containing symbols, norms and values is the result of crosscultural contact and multicultural relations. Transgression is a kind of exchange and transcultural diffusion between two or more different cultural groups. The processes of common cross-cultural, two-directional influences lead to the creation of new types of universalized identity and create the transcultural forms of social as well as political organization.

Cultural Heritage of Local Communities in Oral History. The Base of Constructing the Social Memory
Local communities construct their own cultural heritage on the base of speaking traditions means as oral history. Each small community protects its own set of symbols and elements of tradition, including belief, dialect and private stories and anecdotes. The oral history performs a function of a part of social memory and sustains close social bonds among members of small communities. The article concerns the oral history's role in preserving the cultural identity of small local communities.

Model Multiculturalities. A Critical Approach
The article includes an overview of the factors and reasons for the crisis of ideology and multicultural policy. This crisis is reflected in the concepts and theories describing and explaining the mechanisms and processes of shaping multicultural civil societies. The consequence of this tendency is the growing criticism of the existing models of integration, assimilation and cultural pluralism, undertaken by supporters of populist, nationalistic and conservative concepts. The article focuses mainly on the characteristics of the negative consequences of migration, transculturation and cultural universalization. The article also aims to put forward preliminary general theses on the grounds of criticism of scientific models of multiculturalism.

INTERCULTURAL TYPES OF IDENTITY – BETWEEN INTEGRATION AND ASSIMILATIONThe article is an atempt to systematise dominating approaches in sociology and cultural studies how to describe relations present in societies – today becoming to much lesser extent monoethnic. The cultural, national, ethnic, religious or linguistic diversity constitute exemples of areas where the diverse elements are present. Assimilation, accommodation, integration or separation are a start point in the study on contemporary intercultural identity types.

DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO DEBATE THE ESSENCE OF CULTURAL STUDIES?The article raises a number of questions regarding the purpose of developing new approaches in research on culture. One of them is provided by cultural studies. The rapidly changing reality due to globalisation processes, high technologies and modern forms of communications, inter alia, has forced us to modify and work out new forms of description. New cultural studies constitute, on the one hand, opposition to traditional cultural sciences, while, on the other hand, becoming complementary in the areas in which the traditional approach has proved to be insufficient with its methodological, epistemological, axiological or terminological resources.

Analytical Dimensions of the Intercultural RelationsIn the globalizing world contacts and connections among individuals and groups, communities and nations, businesses and enterprises undergo constant changes and modifications. The technological progress and technological development, including inter alia IT and modes of transport, make the intercultural encounters easier, faster and more common. This in turn creates a broad spectrum of cultural constellations seen in various dimensions of human activity. The article provides a well-developed proposition of an analysis constructed specifically for cultural studies, particularly dedicated to intercultural relations.

Intercultural dialogue in pluralistic societies
Multiculturalism is the wide social and ideological context for the transcultural and cross cultural relations. The model of intercultural dialogue is an essence of fundamental patterns creating common two direction interactions not only in the symbolic sphere but as well in the field of political and economical bonds among different cultural groups. Intercultural dialogue as the consequence of pluralism in the multicultural societies is not only the form of intercultural communication, it serves also as a structural model of building the citizen democratic society. This model can exist within the appropriate forms of cultural orientations and identi-ties among members multicultural societies. The paper is dealing with the main rules and factors characterizing theoretical model of intercultural dialogue.