Sociobiotechnical systems: a new approach to humanity-nature interaction
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Yanitsky O.N. 2016. Sociobiotechnical systems: a new approach to humanity-nature interaction — Sociologicheskaja nauka i social’naja praktika. Vol. 4. No. 3. P. 5-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/snsp.2016.4.3.4574
Abstract
The concept of socio-bio-technical system (SBT-system) as an interdisciplinary theoretical instrument for analysis of utmost complex geosphere processes is offered and substantiated. The existing dichotomy concepts like ‘society-nature’, ‘rural-urban’, ‘local-global’ are not fit to integrated, controversial, mobile and not linear processes that are going in the geosphere. Interdisciplinary and problem- oriented approach, combination of top-down and bottom-up analyses, mutual interpretation of research findings of social, natural and technical sciences, focus on metabolic nature of processes within the SBT-systems, their inherent risky nature, a periodical emergence of critical situations, the phenomenon of ‘space inversion’, the ‘follow the actor principle’, the relativity of notions of actor and its environment, and a network nature of any SBT-systems are the main points of the SBT-systems analysis. In the end of article the author offers an agenda of primary research tasks: follow the activist, glocal and dynamic methodology, the maintenance of permanent dialogue between natural, technical and social sciences, the necessity of institutional transformations within the science body as well as between it and socio-political practice, and the investigation of the role of individual and interest groups in the SBT-systems transformations.
Keywords:
activist method, critical situation, globalization, metabolism, problem-oriented and interdisciplinary approach, relativism, risk, socio-bio-technical system, wastes
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Forrester Dzh. Dinamika razvitija goroda. [The dynamics of the city]. - M.: Progress,1974. - 287 s. (In Russ).
Ermolaeva P. O. Social’no-ekologicheskij metabolizm gorodov: konceptualizacija, nauchnye shkoly, sovremennye zarubezhnye issledovanija. [Socio-ecological metabolism of cities: conceptualisation, research school, modern foreign studies]. J. Sociologicheskaja nauka i social’naja praktika. - 2015. - № 3 (11). - S. 34-50. (In Russ).
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Bauman Z. Culture in a Liquid Modern World. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011b.
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Fisher F. Citizens, Experts, and the Environment: The Politics of Local Knowledge. Durham, London: Duke University Press, 2003. — 336 p.
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Fisher-Kowalski M., Haberl Н. Socioecological Transitions and Global Change. Trajectories of Social Metabolism and Land Use. Vienna: Klagenfurt University, 2007. — 263 p.
Keen D. Complex Emergences. Cambridge: Polity, 2008. — 293 p.
Meier R. The Communication Theory of Urban Growth. Mass.: MIT Press. 1965. — 256 p.
Park R., Burgess R., McKenzie R. The City. Chicago, 1926.
Park R. Human Communities. The City and Human Ecology. Glencoe, 1952. Russian Critical Infrastructures. Vulnerabilities and Policies / Ed. by K. Pynnoniemi. Tampere: The Finnish Institute of International Affairs, 2012. — 119 p.
Sassen S. Territory and Territoriality in the Global Economy // International Sociology. 2000. № 15 (2). Р. 372—393.
Urry J. Mobilities. Cambridge: Polity Press. 2008. — 335 p.
Waters M. Globalization. L., N.Y.: Routledge, 1995. — 185 p.
Wolman A. The Metabolism of the Cities // Scientific American. 1965. № 213 (3). Р. 178—193.
Yanitsky O. Socio-informational Aspects of Urbanization. Paper presented at the VII World Sociological Congress. Varna, Bulgaria. 1970. — 13 p.
Yanitsky O. Towards Creating a Socio-Ecological Conception of a City // Cities and Ecology. The International Expert Meeting. Souzdal, September 24—30, Moscow: Centre of International Projects. 1988. P. 54—57.
Yanitsky O. Modernization and Globalization from the Perspective of a Transition Society // Sociological Theory and the Environment / Ed. by A. Gijswijt, F. Buttel, P. Dickens, R. Dunlap, A. Mol, G. Spaargaren. Part II. Amsterdam: SISWO, 1998. P. 165—184.
Yanitsky O. A Primary Eco-Structure: The Concept and its Testing // Social Analysis. 2012. № 2 (2). Р. 7—24.
Yanitsky O. Sociology of Critical Areas // Open Journal of Social Science Research. — 2014. — № 2(3). — Р. 112—118.
Yanitsky O. New Developments in Environmental Sociology. 2016. [Electronic resource]: Institute of Sociology of Russian Academy of Sciences. Official Website. URL: http://www.isras.m/publ.html?id=4308 (date of access: 18.08.2016).
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Yanitsky, O. N. (2016) ’Sociobiotechnical systems: a new approach to humanity-nature interaction’, Sociologicheskaja nauka i social’naja praktika, 4(3), pp. 5-22. doi: https://doi.org/10.19181/snsp.2016.4.3.4574.
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