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Introduction . The author defines the boundaries of the concept of «cultural conformity» as a special internal dimension of personality in choosing an action. With this aim, an analysis is conducted of the concept of «thinkableness» as a form of individual internal dimension of the personal and social world. Methodology and methods of the research. The author relies on M. Bakhtin’s approach to the philosophy of action, O. I. Genisaretsky’s view on the thinkableness of the cultural-historical perspective. The author shares O. I. Genisaretsky’s vision concerning the complexity of the phenomenon of thinkableness, and also about of its active role in cultural-historical perspective. The article includes an analysis of understanding of the cultural space due to L. N. Kogan. The author defines subject in accordance with the positions of I. F. Hegel and M. Heidegger. While studying social behavior, characteristics, values, the author refers to the works of E. Durkheim and Erich Fromm. The author takes into account the position of E. Durkheim about the significance of real and value judgments in social development. The dilemma of the analysis is the ratio of individual and social motives in the choice of personality. Assessment of the role of humanitarian education as a sphere of identification is characterized on the basis of the works of A. Filippov. The methods of analysis are the analysis of the philosophical, culturological, sociological and other humanitarian research; the value judgment, conclusion as a result of the analysis, generalization, abstraction, interpretation, ascent from the abstract to the concrete. The method of experimental study of the problem includes questioning of social positions of students, survey, the observation, conversation. Results of the research. The article substantiates the necessity of conceptual strategy of development of cultural thinking of the personality as a value support in his/her choice. The author found a tendency of respondents among students to separate meaning and norms in the social choice. The novelty of the proposed material is the integration of the problem of cultural conformity as a specific and necessary aspect of individual and social experience in the selection of cultural and historical lines as the disclosure of the value-semantic context. This position is defined as the movement towards conscious evolution. The article reveals the value connection of the norm of personal act with the space of cultural sense choices. The novelty of the material is the justification of cultural identity as a necessary dimension of individual and social cultural experience, as well as the quest to uncover value-semantic relationship of the norms of the personal acts in connection with the issue of measurability of cultural space as the degree of awareness of it at the individual and the global levels. Conclusion . The mechanism, offered by the author, for making a value-related decision has practical significance and can be used in social processes as the movement to the normative-semantic consensus in society, including education, in the process of formation of personal properties. It is shown that the culturally conformal thinkableness of an action strengthens the value relationship of the social norm and its individual meaning in the choice of personality, setting the line toward individual and social perfection.