The Arrow of Time: Challenges for Sociological Knowledge

Abstract

The author analyzes new challenges appeared as a result of the becoming of the complex socium. It is shown that these vulnerabilities manifest new risks for the functioning of the society and its members. For solving these problems there proposed a humanistic turn that presupposes the integration of Sociology with hard and humanitarian sciences. It will be an intellectual instrument for overcoming the appeared challenges to sociological knowledge.

Keywords

• social and cultural dynamics
• complex socium
• arrow of time
• reflexivity
• vulnerabilities
• unanticipated consequences
• humanistic turn