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Future research of the future: From technocracy to new models of sociality
- Authors: Koval E.A.1, Ushkin S.G.2
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Affiliations:
- Middle-Volga Institute (branch) of the All-Russian State University of Justice
- Research Center for Social-Economic Monitoring
- Issue: Vol 20, No 1 (2020)
- Pages: 161-169
- Section: Reviews
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/22952
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-2272-2020-20-1-161-169
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The article is a review of the book by J. Urry Kak vyglyadit budushchee? [What is the Future?] (Trans. by A. Matvienko; ed. by S. Shchukina. Moscow: Delo; 2018. 320 pp.] which describes multiple discourses of the social future and methods for its research. Its author, the co-director of the Lancaster’s Institute for Social Futures, believes that futurologists focus on new technologies but the key element of crucial innovations is social phenomena. The book presents the following main aspects of the contemporary research of the future: the social future is multiple, and its various images are supported by different actors and compete; all stakeholders should take part in discussions of the future - states, markets, civil society institutions, individuals; as a rule, three methods are used to study the future - individualistic, structural and based on the theory of complex systems; the future needs not to be planned but rather coordinated. The book proves the necessity to study the future to correct the present by creating and transforming social norms, practices and value orientations.
About the authors
E. A. Koval
Middle-Volga Institute (branch) of the All-Russian State University of Justice
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Email: nwifesc@yandex.ru
доктор философских наук, главный научный сотрудник отдела научных исследований
Fedoseenko St., 6, Saransk, 430003, RussiaS. G. Ushkin
Research Center for Social-Economic Monitoring
Email: ushkinsergey@gmail.com
кандидат социологических наук, ведущий научный сотрудник
B. Khmelnitskogo St., 39a, Saransk, 430005, RussiaReferences
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