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The Trajectory of Social Entropy in Opposition of Social Order and Social Chaos in Modern Russian Society


(Pyatigorsk State University)

In the article the author comes from the fact that the social entropy as a set of social characteristics, current and recorded in the course of social interaction and social system refl ecting the uncertainty in the life of society, primarily
manifested in the opposition of social order and social chaos.
Social order is opposed to the social chaos generated by a system of social relations and forms of social interaction.
Chaos, like order, is the basis of sociality. On the one hand, chaos is a source of social dynamics, and, on the other hand, chaos is opposed to order and represents its opposite – the destruction of, loss of relations and meanings.
Non-classical approaches interpret social chaos in the context of globalization, the onset of universal disorder, which requires, in General, distinguish between "social chaos" and "disorder". Existing theoretical approaches to definition and interpretation of social chaos allow us to conclude that this phenomenon is not only characteristic of the state of society, but also a process or set of disorganized processes of social organization.
In this respect, one of the major problems of any society is reproduction of the disruption, and the ability to resist this process. Suppression of conflict at the state level in Russia always breeds more disorganization. For ideological reasons (the desire to apologetics, the illusion of a stable society, an attempt to evade discussion of the problems of instability) disorganization as one of generalizing the characteristics of the society was not given sufficient attention.
The trajectory of social entropy in opposition of social order and social chaos due to their dual correlation. No wonder there was a whole system of conceptual antinomies, which are defi ned the main parameters of the order as an
organization: equilibrium / disequilibrium, opening / closing systems, stability / instability, dynamics / homeostasis, homogeneity / diversity, symmetry / asymmetry, linearity / nonlinearity, predictability / unpredictability.
The Trajectory of Social Entropy in Opposition of Social Order and Social Chaos in Modern Russian Society

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