SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE CONTEXT OF TEMPORAL REFERENCES

Abstract

Methodological approaches to modern transforming society are considered; it is shown that modern society should be viewed in a dynamic aspect as a society of social transformations; the problem of the need for a correct and adequate display of significant issues of social development within the philosophy of science and social philosophy in the system of the semantic apparatus; demonstrated the existence of different levels of application of the conceptual and semantic apparatus when considering social transformations at the level of complex social systems; revealed that it is advisable to conduct a discourse that social synergetics allows modeling moments relating to the creative, active, practical activity of the most knowledgeable social subject when studying social transformations within the framework of a transitive society; features of the development of social transformations in nonlinear development of society; the situation has been investigated whereby a social subject, using some tool, will determine and choose a specific variant of the corresponding system of development, functioning, modernization, transformation of society; it is postulated that the social subject constructs a number of images of social transformations that reflect perception not only of a complex of real events but also mainly focus on the idea of how social processes will develop in the future; it is shown that in such situations, the priority role is indicated not only by those factors that stem from the essence of different versions of social being, that is, in this case, and those factors that each researcher connects with objective factors and which assume the trajectory of historical and social processes on the time scale, directed from some present time to the future.

Keywords

• Methodology
• Social transformations
• Transitional states
• Social subject
• Periods of transition
• Alternative
• Evaluation
• Time
• Instability
• Temporal referents