POST-PRESENT MIDDLE AGES AND GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS

Abstract

Purpose To investigate globalization as the socio-cultural phenomenon of dichotomizing property and on this basis to prove medieval analogies in prospects of modern societies development. Methodology Methodological basis of research was the dialectic method of knowledge. The work is carried out with application to general scientific methods of the public phenomena knowledge (the analysis, analogy, comparison, etc.) with a support on methodological provisions and conclusions which social dynamics admits complete process. Such understanding demanded application of system approach. Results Research allows to make a number of conclusions which allow to prove idea that actual global transformations have the dichotomy nature and by the nature are similar to transition processes from antique era to the medieval. Practical implications Results of research allow to look in a new way at actual socio-historical transformations and to develop conceptual base for predictive works in the field of sociology of culture and history philosophy.