Абай атындағы ҚазҰПУ-нің ХАБАРШЫСЫ, «Əлеуметтік жəне саяси ғылымдар» сериясы, №3 (75) 2021 ж. 8
concepts, which makes it possible to localize this process in a socially desirable way, avoiding both
excessive optimism and extreme pessimism.
Characteristics of the sociocultural approach that appeals to the synthesis of the social and the
cultural, which is based on the complementarity methodology borrowed from theoretical physics (N.
Bohr, V. Heisenberg). What is the main idea of the methodological effect and the principle of
complementarity, which goes beyond the scope of natural science and has general scientific
significance? N. Bohr's principle of complementarity says: in order to correctly illuminate any object
of reality, it is necessary to describe it from the point of view of two opposite systems of description.
N. Bohr proposed an approach, the main idea of which is to solve problems of quantum mechanics,
continuity and discreteness as equal adequate pictures. N. Bohr initially assumed that the principle of
complementarity would become more likely a possible predetermination of future scientific programs
than a complete concept. “In the general philosophical aspect, it is important,” notes N. Bohr, “that
in other areas of knowledge we encounter a situation resembling the situation in quantum physics ...
The integrity of living organisms and characteristics of people having consciousness, as well as
human cultures, represent features of integrity, a display that requires a typically additional way of
describing ... These are not vague analogies, but distinct examples of logical connections that are
found in different areas of knowledge” [4].
The methodology of complementarity was understood by Yu. Lotman as an epistemological
assimilation of philosophy and the humanities of the twentieth century and integrated into the
paradigms of "philosophy of the text" and "philosophy of dialogue", which received general scientific
and sociocultural significance [5].
It can be concluded that the main idea of the sociocultural approach lies in the fact that it unites
three dimensions of human existence (a person in his relationship with society, the nature of culture,
the type of sociality), thus, it can be distinguished, such as fundamental; each of which is not
expressed with others and is not derived from them, but at the same time they are all interdependent
and influence each other as the most important components of human communities. The
multidimensionality of man and history, expressed here in the methodological integration of three
specific forms (methods, measurements) of human existence.
The first driving element of the sociocultural system is a person - homo activus. It is a
multidimensional biosocial-cultural being that expresses itself in social action. Since these actions,
according to M. Weber, are important for other people, then at the same time they are the essence of
interaction and represent, according to P. Sorokin, the cell of all socio-cultural phenomena. The subjects
of actions of interactions are both individuals and social communities (groups, organizations, etc.).
It is necessary to realize that society as a kind of integrity is strengthened in the conditions of its
transformation. According to N. Lapin, a more perfect and adequate tool in the interpretation of
society as a unity of culture and sociality is the sociocultural approach, because it specifies the
mechanism for combining the changeable and the stable. The sociocultural approach is not opposed
to other approaches (for example, structural or system-functional), but complements them, is more
general and interesting for the systemic methodology and can be considered as the level of specificity
of the principle of universal evolutionism [5]. In this regard, it is also necessary to emphasize that the
sociocultural approach does not deny economic, political and other social factors, but focuses on the
analysis of culture, understood as a program of the subject's activity.
The sociocultural approach combines civilizational and formational approaches into a single
whole. If the civilizational approach, as the most important, includes reliable components of human
history (anthropological, ethnic, cultural), and the formational approach pays attention to more
changeable (social, personal) structures, then the sociocultural approach expresses a combination of
stable and change (personality and society , culture and sociality). At the same time, the sociocultural
approach is fully compatible with the structural-functional approach.
Let us illustrate this by the example of the concept of T. Parsons, according to whom, the basis
of the functional approach consists of four basic functional needs of an action and corresponding
subsystems of an aggregate social action system: