Yanitsky O.N. «Transition to the Figure»: Some Issues of a Theory and Methodology of its Study

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Abstract

Today and in the near future the “transition to the fi gure” is the strategic task of Russian society. The article presents an attempt to explicate a set of theoretical and methodological approaches that are necessary to the study of this “transit”. In this article the following issues are successively analyzed. They are as follows: the subject matter and instruments necessary for its investigation; the transcription of the theoretical and methodological apparatus is off ered; the other possible analytical instruments are considered; and the necessity of the study of “transit” as a particular state of any social organism is accentuated. The social-informational processes play the integrative role here because they are refl ected an interdependence of all moments of the “transition period” and simultaneously represents an instrument for their complex governance. That is the instruments necessary for the “transition to the fi gure” is based on the “either– or” principle that refl ects a probabilistic character of the process in question. As the result, it’s off ered to conduct any analysis of the “transit” in the frame of the following scheme: “global world–nation-state–megalopolis–local community–individual” in its dynamics and contradictions. A necessity of combination of macro and microanalysis refl ects a growing interdependence of structures and processes in modern material and virtual worlds. The analysis of “transition” processes should be combined with a thrifty study of its space-time dynamics. A success of the new perestroika would be substantially dependent of a degree of Russia’s inclusion in international economic, informational and humanitarian exchange.