Responsive image
Article Legal Nature of Society: Anthroposociocultural Approach
Authors Havryliuk R.
Name of magazine Legal journal «Law of Ukraine» (Ukrainian version)
Issue 4 / 2015
Pages 110 - 137
Annotation The article proves that the most common models of society are its atomic and substantival doctrines, and cooperative conception. The first two are one-sided, unable to explain relevant characteristics of the society: atomic — its procedural nature, origin of the social from the individual, and substantival — specific human dimensionality of the society. Thus, they follow the cooperative conception in heuristic potential, measure of validity and certainty. Cooperative conception of the society presents it as a self-regulating procedural system of social interaction of individuals in consequence of necessity to satisfy their immanent needs, as well as of other communicative effects. The principle of its self-reference is the basis for the cooperative model of the society, while its two other models — atomic and substantival — are forced to invoke the search of the off-human factors of the society emergence, or to represent it as a mechanistic formation. Historical experience of the existence of human societies proves the genuine character of the cooperative model of explanation of their nature.
Keywords nature of society, anthroposociocultural approach, atomic doctrine of society, substantival doctrine of society, cooperative conception of society.
References
Electronic version Download