Information society as a new socio-economic formation: methodological and terminological aspects
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https://doi.org/10.31812/apm.7742Keywords:
information society, post-industrial society, civilizational approach, formational approach, socio-economic formationAbstract
The article analyzes the prospects of simultaneously applying the civilizational and formational approaches to the study of the information society and examines the specifics of this type of society as a new formation. The emphasis is placed on the methodological foundations of both approaches and their terminological frameworks.
The civilizational approach views the information society as a historical stage of humanity, sequentially following the agrarian and industrial stages. Within this approach, attention is drawn to the dominant product (information) and the nature of labor (intellectual labor), based on the naming of the stages themselves. In contrast, the formational approach focuses on social relations of ownership and class structures. The article juxtaposes these approaches and concludes that their synthesis allows for a comprehensive assessment of societal development, taking into account both economic activity and socio-class relations of ownership.
Special attention is given to the inability to consider the information society within the framework of the capitalist formation due to the processes of intellectualization of labor and the dematerialization of its components, which significantly complicate the relations of exploitation and ownership, being atypical for capitalism. Consequently, the article concludes that the information society should be viewed through the lens of a new independent formation following capitalism. The work proposes alternative terms for this new socio-economic order and its dominant class.
Overall, the study expands the understanding of the information society as a complex phenomenon at the intersection of economic and social analysis and offers an integrative approach to its study.
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