Schenina O.G. Topological perspective of the study of socio-political relations. In: Russia and the political order in a changing world: values, institutions, prospects: Materials of the IX All-Russian Congress of Political Scientists, Moscow, December 16-18, 2021 ...

Abstract

The article notes that the topological approach to the study of political relations seems promising from the point of view of the methodology of political science.Political relations are a multi-level system of interactions between actors and subjects of politics about power, its implementation in political decisions in the field of public administration or in the field of interaction between the state and civil society structures.The subject of topology research is their properties preserved under conditions of modifications and deformations of objects, such as continuity, connectivity.   In the context of the study of political relations, the topological method is of particular interest to specialists, since it allows them to analyze their complex multi-layered structure in dynamics. Another aspect of the topological perspective of the study of political relations is the use of the theory of J. Lo, who proposes the concept of social topology based on the idea of integrating the topology of space and the topology of forms.