A work is devoted to a novation concept in sociology of culture. A non-traditional approach to the analysis of culture from positions of considering its system-organic characteristics is presented in the article. The given source point let us to see each culture in its organic unity, individual specificity and natural-historical changeability. The central notion # instrument of analysis # is #vital forces of a culture#. The last is determined as base essential characteristics of cultural system that provide its unity, ability to self-development, architectonical and substantial-phenomenon originality, and as things that set the pace for interaction and interrelations with other historical cultural organizations.