An Individual in the Modern Informational Society
Research Article
Acknowledgments
The article has been written with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation. Project № 19-78-10052 «Volunteering in emergency situations as a response to natural and man-made challenges in Russia»
How to Cite
Yanitsky O.N. 2020. An Individual in the Modern Informational Society — Sociologicheskaja nauka i social’naja praktika. Vol. 8. No. 2. P. 9-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/snsp.2020.8.2.7300
Abstract
The article is dealing with a relatively new theme in current Russian sociology, namely with the changing archetype of modern individual under conditions of the Fourth Scientific and Technological Revolution (hereafter the STR-4). Drawing on the works of Russian and foreign natural scientists and scholars and on my own long-term empirical researches in this field of sociological theory, I’ve made an attempt to comprehend the processes of shaping of the above archetype and his historically shaped social units under the influence of the STR-4, structural-functional organization of a global whole, and in the processes of the emergence of transnational structures and processes.
Recently a necessity of the trinity of a science, teaching (and permanently re-teaching) and social practice is supported by such fundamental trends of modern society as the development of interdisciplinary approaches in the researches and teaching, by early transformation of a child from a pupil into an actor and a researcher, by the processes of hybridization of modern social and construction practices, and by and large the merging of that three types of social practices in the same person. The abovementioned processes are stimulated by a speeding up of all current social practices and transformations. The return of public role of the scientists, uninterrupted re-education and civil activism in the modern society are the other uniting forces. In turn, all said above is impossible without a respectful attitude toward the sciences from the part of the governing institutions and business-elite.
Keywords:
civil activism, globalization, hybridization, informational society, interdisciplinary approach, practice, science, trinity, volunteers, Russia
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Article
Received: 13.10.2019
Accepted: 30.06.2020
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Yanitsky, O. N. (2020) ’An Individual in the Modern Informational Society’, Sociologicheskaja nauka i social’naja praktika, 8(2), pp. 9-23. doi: https://doi.org/10.19181/snsp.2020.8.2.7300.
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MODERN SOCIETY
Publisher: Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FCTAS RAS)