Civilization in the epoch of changes: search for new development strategies

  • Vyacheslav S. Stepin Russian Academy of Sciences, 114 Leninskii Avenue, Moscow 119991, Russia

Abstract

Modern civilization is ascertained to have entered the stage of instability and crisis followed, as a rule, by fundamental qualitative systemic changes. When analyzing modern changes in civilizational development, it requires considering the global civilizational changes as a complex systemic integrity. Such a transformation is expressed in the conception of types of civilizational development, each type of civilization development be considered in its historical evolution. The problem of new development strategies that could overcome the cardinal global crises entailing the destruction of civilization and even self-destruction of mankind is raised. These strategies suggest a rethinking of the typological core of the sociocultural genome of modern civilization. The importance of singling out and fixing as an initial boundary of these searches the ideal of preserving the mankind as a special subsystem of the biosphere and the biosphere itself as a complex evolving value system is underlined.

Author Biography

Vyacheslav S. Stepin, Russian Academy of Sciences, 114 Leninskii Avenue, Moscow 119991, Russia

academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, doctor of science (philosophy), full professor; head of the section of philosophy, sociology, psychology and law, department of social science

Published
2019-03-11
Keywords: types of civilizational development, radical transformation, ecological and anthropological crisis, cultural and genetic code, socio-cultural genome of modern civilization, system of new values and vital meanings, world outlook universals of culture
How to Cite
Stepin, V. S. (2019). Civilization in the epoch of changes: search for new development strategies. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology, 3, 6-11. Retrieved from https://journals.bsu.by/index.php/sociology/article/view/1639