Personality and Society in the Theory of Self-Organized Criticality

被引:2
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作者
Zhukov, Dmitry S. [1 ]
机构
[1] GR Derzhavin Tambov State Univ, Tambov, Russia
来源
CHANGING SOCIETIES & PERSONALITIES | 2023年 / 7卷 / 02期
基金
俄罗斯科学基金会;
关键词
punctuated equilibrium; self-organized criticality; pink noise; history; society; politics; social transformations;
D O I
10.15826/csp.2023.7.2.229
中图分类号
C91 [社会学];
学科分类号
030301 ; 1204 ;
摘要
Emerged in the domain of natural science, the theory of selforganized criticality (SOC) has spread to various fields over the past decades, achieving the status of an interdisciplinary paradigm. This article aims to answer three questions: Is SOC really a ubiquitous property of social reality? Does the SOC theory really substantiate the fundamental unpredictability and inevitability of social catastrophes? What contribution can the SOC theory make to clarifying the fundamental mystery of the relationship between human will and historical necessity? I performed a meta-analysis of the latest literature and summarized the results of my own case studies. So far, there is not enough empirical data to confirm that SOC is ubiquitous, although it has been proven that SOC is characteristic of many social systems-especially those in a borderline, transitional state. The SOC theory supports the idea that in some social systems for a fairly long time (even by historical standards), human will, act, and opinion can have a fundamental impact on the development of the whole of a system.
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页码:10 / 33
页数:24
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