Modern society: new challenges and risks

Authors

  • Alexander N. Danilov Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1190-4975
  • Dmitry K. Bezniuk Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus
  • Iosif M. Bogdevich Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 90 Kazinca Street, Minsk 220108, Belarus
  • Pavel A. Vodopiyanov Belarusian State Technological University, 13a Sviardlova Street, Minsk 220006, Belarus
  • Igor D. Volotovsky Institute of Biophysics and Cell Engineering, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 27 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus
  • Anatoly I. Zelenkov Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus
  • Agamali K. Mamedov Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1 Leninskiye Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia
  • Marina A. Mojeiko Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts, 17 Rabkaraŭskaja Street, Minsk 220007, Belarus
  • Anatoly V. Rubanau Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus
  • Larissa G. Titarenko Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus
  • Vyacheslav K. Shcherbin Centre for System Analysis and Strategic Research, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 1 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus

Keywords:

modern society, new challenges and risks, social changes, sociology of life, crisis of technogenic civilisation, cellular paradigm, ecological carelessness, interdisciplinary synthesis, life world, language of modern sociology

Abstract

The round table is devoted to the discussion on a wide range of problems related to new challenges and prospects for the development of modern society. These are the challenges of global instability, bio- and cybersecurity, pandemic problems, digitalisation, which all lead the world to large-scale crises: economic, environmental, anthropological, etc. In the conditions of global instability, there is a rise of connections and interactions that fix new social changes, some other integrity, and the crisis of the technogenic civilisation. In this case, modernity is perceived not as a completed project, but as a process of updating social reality, a person’s ideas about society. It includes the main aspects of human relations to the world, and opens up a great civilisational diversity, which only grows with time. The catalysts of change on the way to a new modernity are values that reflect changes in life meanings under the influence of social life. Constantly emerging new risks and challenges motivate the reset of values that are tested in the depths of culture and only after that become ideals for imitation and reproduction. Currently, there is another change of milestones. Modernity imposes its own requirements on the processes taking place in society, and largely determines the course of global evolution as the path of ascent of complex systems to higher levels of organisation and complexity.

Author Biographies

  • Alexander N. Danilov, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, doctor of science (sociology), full professor; head of the department of sociology, faculty of philosophy and social sciences

  • Dmitry K. Bezniuk, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    doctor of science (sociology), full professor; professor at the department of sociology, faculty of philosophy and social sciences

  • Iosif M. Bogdevich, Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 90 Kazinca Street, Minsk 220108, Belarus

    academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, doctor of science (agricultural science), full professor; chief researcher

  • Pavel A. Vodopiyanov, Belarusian State Technological University, 13a Sviardlova Street, Minsk 220006, Belarus

    corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, doctor of science (philosophy), full professor; professor at the department of philosophy and law, faculty of organic substances technology

  • Igor D. Volotovsky, Institute of Biophysics and Cell Engineering, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 27 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus

    academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, doctor of science (biology), full professor; chief researcher

  • Anatoly I. Zelenkov, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    doctor of science (philosophy), full professor; professor at the department of philosophy and methodology of science, faculty of philosophy and social sciences

  • Agamali K. Mamedov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1 Leninskiye Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia

    doctor of science (sociology), full professor; head of the department of sociology of communication systems, faculty of sociology

  • Marina A. Mojeiko, Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts, 17 Rabkaraŭskaja Street, Minsk 220007, Belarus

    doctor of science (philosophy), full professor; professor at the department of social and humanitarian disciplines, faculty of information and document communications

  • Anatoly V. Rubanau, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    doctor of science (sociology), full professor; professor at the department of sociology, faculty of philosophy and social sciences

  • Larissa G. Titarenko, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    doctor of science (sociology), full professor; professor at the department of sociology, faculty of philosophy and social sciences

  • Vyacheslav K. Shcherbin, Centre for System Analysis and Strategic Research, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 1 Akademičnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus

    PhD (philology); leading researcher

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Published

2022-12-19

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No. 4 (2022): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology

Section

Round Table

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[1]
Danilov, A.N. et al. 2022. Modern society: new challenges and risks. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology. 4 (Dec. 2022), 12–33. DOI:https://doi.org/10.33581/2521-6821-2022-4-12-33.