Schipkov Alexandr Vladimirovich
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On the Concept of “Social Tradition”Moscow University Bulletin. Series 12. Political Science. 2019. 5. p.7-12read more673
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This article describes the crisis of the liberal capitalist model of society. The current period is considered as a transitional one. According to the author, the conditions for changing the outdated paradigm of development are a synthesis of traditionalism, cultural and historical pluralism, and social justice. This synthesis, called by the author “social traditionalism,” involves overcoming historical disruptions in the life of every nation. For the West, such a model means a synthesis of Christian values and the achievements of classical rationality, which must be cleansed of the speculations of positivism and social racism. With this understanding, tradition is not a subject of restoration, but a method of cultural construction, and the rigid alternatives that the elite puts before society are an alarming sign of another coming or impending break in tradition. The general thesis of social traditionalism is that there are no, and cannot be, superfl uous people in society, there are no superfl uous peoples in humanity, and there are no superfl uous times in history.
Keywords: archaization of society, axiomodernism, colonialism, countermodernism, liberalism, myth of superiority, Orthodox ethics, Russo-Byzantine world, the social tradition, traditionalism
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Rethinking The Phenomenon Of Tradition In Modern Social Science And Humanities StudiesMoscow University Bulletin. Series 12. Political Science. 2021. 3. p.38-43read more230
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This article deals with the conceptology of the notion of “tradition,” and the problem of its interpretations in the 20th century and in current scholarship. The author addresses the incorrectness and limited applicability of sociological and historical concepts based on a rigid dichotomy of “tradition-modernity (contemporaneity). ”The confrontation between the two approaches to the phenomenon of tradition, “Weberian” (evolutionary) and “post-Weberian” (dialectical), is described. The article posits a dialectical view of tradition as a guarantor of the fixity of historical changes and social stability — an interpretation of tradition not as an ethno-cultural phenomenon, but as a broader social mechanism responsible for the transfer of social experience and ideals along a chain of generations. In the context of a traditionalistic view, the author offers the concept of a “greater society” based on a contract of generations. The role of tradition in national history is seen as a connection of Russianness with its Byzantine heritage.Keywords: “greater society”; contract of generations; social tradition; tradition; traditionology; traditionalism; modernism; evolutionism
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