Theoretical Approaches to Research on Modernization of Russia under Conditions of Complex Society

Abstract

The article analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of postmodernism as a sociological approach to the study of the modernization of a complex society. There are discussed the postmodernist approaches to the problems of epistemology, determinism and representation that influence on the understanding of social-economic reality in the works of modern sociologists.

Keywords

• modernization
• sociological postmodernism
• representation
• determinism