ВЕСТНИК КазНПУ им. Абая, серия «Социологические и политические науки», №3 (75), 2021 г.
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Methodology.
Despite the thematic and conceptual pluralism of modern social theory, it sets certain framework
conditions for self-cognition and self-description of society. Social theory analyzing modern society is
based on three indisputable facts. Firstly, the problematization of the fundamental theme of social order
as a condition of human society and mutual understanding remains a constant. Secondly, the progress
of society is still closely linked with the development of science and knowledge. Third, social theory
takes the form of a critical theory as a new epistemological type of theory, with the integrative role of
philosophical reflection.
Among the main methods
of intellectual analysis, understanding and interpretation of social
development? modern literature lists the social and cultural approach.
This article is an attempt to explicate the sociocultural approach as a general methodological tool
that allows an integrated analysis of modern society. The possibility
of using the methodological
potential of a social cultural approach to analyzing the transformation process of modern society that is
increasingly named informational, is also being considered.
Results and discussion.
In the context of the meaning of the information society, they combined the knowledge-oriented
and digital
form of the image of objects, the newest nature of production,
the dynamics of the
development of social processes, as well as the idea of a person as a developed personality, who turns
out to be the owner of information culture thanks to information and communication technologies.
An information society is an innovative type of civilization that forms modern structures and
corresponding socio-political mechanisms
for solving problems, interconnected with the
transformation of information technology industries. The structure of the information society is more
complex than the structure of the previous types of social reality, since the fundamental link of this
society - computer communications - is not a separate unit of production, but a product of a specific
industry. Ontologically and epistemologically, this type of society is represented by the information
paradigm, which, in turn, proceeds from the theory of communication.
Based on information
ontology, reality is identical to information, and the human personality is reduced to the amount of
information it contains. The concept of the information society indicates the principle around which
this social form is organized - knowledge and information [1]. “The use and exchange of information
is a part of culture,” states O.N. Vershinskaya. In her opinion, the social and cultural dynamics of the
information society captures the social and economic processes, changing the behavior strategies of
individuals, creating a new way of life, patterns of consumption, new standards of morality, a new
information culture appears [2]. An information society appears where the main task is not to control
material objects, but symbols, images, ideas and intelligence.
According to J. Habermas, communication has an important difference from communicative
action from other social actions, which consists in its focus on finding mutual understanding between
social subjects as prerequisites and conditions of social order.
Genuine communication is a
mechanism for the interaction of the plans of communicating social actors. The communicative act
binds equal subjects not only by common information flows, but also by common values, norms that
regulate the process of messaging and their common understanding [3]. Thus, the communicative
function of information is the core of sociocultural development, dialogical in nature [3, p. 123].
The emergence of a society based on information
and communication technologies, which
marked the emergence of new social ideas and new methodological intuition. This concept of the
information society functions and organizes social ideals and values that are widely discussed in the
social sciences and humanities within the framework of a social and cultural approach.
What are the methodological possibilities and prospects of a social and cultural approach in the
cognition and description of the society transforming in the direction of informatization.
Sociocultural analysis will have to answer its goal-setting questions: in what direction and for
what purpose is the current social situation developing and what is the axiological component of this
process? The synthesizing nature of the sociocultural analysis of the information society creates a
direction for the formation of the goal of its further development, the search for the latest normative