The trauma society as the third development modality

Authors

  • Zhan T. Toshchenko Russian State University for the Humanities, 6 Miusskaya Square, Moscow 125993, Russia; Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 24/35 Krzhizhanovskogo Street, 5 building, Moscow 117218, Russia

Keywords:

trauma society, development, progress, evolution, revolution

Abstract

The article presents arguments showing the trauma society as the third development modality. The evolution of ideas is revisited from the progress to a trauma society. It allowed the author to conclude that the development of mankind on previous stages was considered only in two modalities which are evolution and/or revolution. However, the real history has shown that the idea of progress does not always correlate to reality. In the social sciences still present, and sometimes even dominate rooted in the Enlightenment formal-pragmatic ideas about the nature of social well-being as determined by the level of the material and technical base of society, the consumption of goods. Nowadays this is one of the latest innovations and only the form of this argument is changing: the emphasis is on the degree of social, economic, educational and cultural digitalization, which positive effect is absolutized. Interpretation of the ongoing processes from the perspective of two main characteristics of the development directions which are revolution and evolution makes impossible to cover and explain the whole variety of real; just peculiar processes and events. Therefore, the author proposes to use the «trauma» concept as a specific, intermediate version between the mentioned development ways and turns it into a social concept. This allows to say that a fundamentally new concept has appeared in the scientific field which is the trauma society as the third development modality along with evolution and revolution.

Author Biography

  • Zhan T. Toshchenko, Russian State University for the Humanities, 6 Miusskaya Square, Moscow 125993, Russia; Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 24/35 Krzhizhanovskogo Street, 5 building, Moscow 117218, Russia

    corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, doctor of science (philosophy), full professor; head of the department of theory and history of sociology, faculty of sociology, Russian State University for the Humanities, and chief researcher, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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2020-04-10

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Toshchenko, Z.T. 2020. The trauma society as the third development modality. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology. 1 (Apr. 2020), 4–12.