DOI: 10.17072/2078-7898/2016-4-28-37

SOCIAL MYTHOLOGY AS AN EVOLVING SYSTEM

Ivanov Andrey Gennadievich
Ph.D. in Philosophy, Docent, Associate Professor
of the Department of State, Municipal Service and Management

Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy
and Public Administration (Lipetsk Branch),
3, Internatsionalnaya str., Lipetsk, 398050, Russia;
e-mail: agivanov2@yandex.ru

A systematic approach has been applied to the study of social mythology. Social mythology is considered as a system consisting of ontological, gnoseological, axiological and praxeological subsystems. Each subsystem includes a number of key components. To secure the presence of social mythology in society and to illustrate the components of the system of social mythology the term of «conceptual notion – mythological attractor» is introduced. This term means a phenomenon of social life, containing any mythological filling. The development of society leads to changes in all subsystems of social mythology. The main changes are the following: the ideas about causation and about the relationship of part and whole are moving to the «archaic» level of social mythology, while the ideas of space and time are moving to the «conjunctural» level; there are similarities of principles for the development of non-linear processes and principles of functioning of mythological consciousness; there is a trend towards assessment of level of constructive or destructive consequences, the results of the implementation of social mythology; socio-mythological existence can be seen through consideration of myth-ritual practices, previously based in the traditions, but in contemporary society representing a conglomerate of various elements, containing both archaic and quasimythological components. The study concludes that the social mythology is primarily an evolving system.

Keywords: social mythology; the system of social mythology; conceptual notion – myhological attractor; ontological, gnoseological, axiological, praxeological subsystems of social mythology; non-linear processes; evolving system.

References

1. Barthes R. Mifologii [Mythologies]. Moscow, Sabashnikovs Publ., 2004, 320 p. (In Russian).
2. Baudrillard J. [The violence of globalization]. Logos [Logos], 2003, no 1, pp. 20–23. (In Russian).
   1. Baudrillard J. Simulyakry i simulyatsii [Simulacra and simulation]. Moscow, POSTUM Publ., 2015, 240 p. (In Russian).
   2. Gulyga A.V. Estetika v svete aksiologii. Pyatdesyat let na Volkhonke [Aesthetics in the light of axiology. Fifty years on Volkhonka]. Saint Petersburg, Aleteya Publ., 2000, 447 p. (In Russian).
   3. Zenkin S.N. [Metabarthes]. Barthes R. Rolan Bart o Rolane Barte [Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes]. Moscow, Ad Maringem Press Publ., 2012, pp. 200–223. (In Russian).
   4. Ivanov A.G. [The Problem of Constructing a Theory of Social Mythology]. Izvestiya Saratovskogo universiteta. Novaya seriya. Seriya: Filosofiya. Psikhologiya. Pedagogika [Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Philosophy. Psychology. Pedagogy], 2016, vol. 16, iss. 1, pp. 14–19. (In Russian).
   5. Matr’yanov V.S., Fishman L.G. Rossiya v poiskakh utopiy. Ot moralnogo kollapsa k moralnoy revolyutsii [Russia in search of utopia. From moral collapse to moral revolution]. Moscow, Ves Mir Publ., 2010, 256 p. (In Russian).
   6. Meletinskii E.M. Poetika mifa [The Poetics of myth]. Moscow, Akademicheskiy Proekt Publ., 2012, 331 p. (In Russian).
   7. Mozheiko M.A. [Non-linear dynamics theory]. Noveyshiy filosofskiy slovar [The Newest philosophical dictionary]. Minsk, Knizhnyy Dom Publ., 2003, pp. 672–674. (In Russian).
   8. Pertsev A.V. [What do we need retranslating Nietzsche for?]. Vestnik Permskogo universiteta. Filosofiya. Psihologiya. Sotsiologiya [Perm University Herald. Series «Philosophy. Psychology. Sociology»]. 2015, no 3(23), pp. 24–31. DOI: 10.17072/2078-7898/2015-3-24-31. (In Russian).
   9. Pertsev A.V. [Nietzschean Myth of E. Bertram: Free Draft of Culturological Intuitivism]. Bertram E. Nitsshe. Opyt mifologii [Nietzsche. Attempt at a Mythology]. Saint Petersburg, Vladimir Dal Publ., 2013, pp. 551–574. (In Russian).
   10. Ul’yanovskii A.V. Mifodizayn: kommercheskie i sotsialnye mify [Mythodesign: commercial and social myths]. Saint Petersburg, Piter Publ., 2005, 544 p.(In Russian).
   11. Furs V.N. [Ritual]. Noveyshiy filosofskiy slovar [The Newest philosophical dictionary]. Minsk, Knizhnyy Dom Publ., 2003, p. 839. (In Russian).
   12. Schwarzmantel J. Ideologiya i politika [Ideology and politics]. Kharkov, Gumanitarnyy Tsentr Publ., 2009, 312 p. (In Russian).

The date of the manuscript receipt 03.04.2016

Please cite this article in English as:

IvanovA.G.Social mythology as an evolving system // Perm University Herald. Series «Philosophy. Psychology. Sociology». 2016. Iss. 4(28). P.28–37. doi: 10.17072/2078-7898/2016-4-28-37