The dynamic of social time: evolution of sociological views

• Main Author: P. A. Ambarova
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology 2014-06-01
• Series: Социологический журнал
• Online Access: http://jour.fnisc.ru/upload/journals/1/articles/493/submission/proof/493-61-896-1-10-20150204.pdf

The article presents a conceptual framework for analyzing the dynamics of social time. The purpose of this study was to justify the idea of the existence of temporal forms, methods and mechanisms of interaction between society and culture. The tasks of the research were: sociological examination of the evolution of ideas about the dynamics of social time, starting with the classical stage of history of sociology to the modern stage of its development; expanding the concept of dynamics of social time, as well as determining its dynamic properties.The main hypothesis is the understanding of social time as a mechanism linking society and culture, and social dynamics of time — as its properties, determining the character and features of this connection. The starting assumption was a radical change in the dynamic properties of time in the modern world, proving serious discrepancies between social time of society and social time of culture.Methodological basis of the research are the principles of historical-sociological and temporal approaches to examine the nature of temporal relationships and temporal contradictions between society and culture, internal rules of development of social time and change its properties.