On the determining factors of socio-cultural changes

Petrov Igor F., Petrova Sophia I.

The article shows that society, as a self-organizing system, constantly changes regimes, implements variability at different social levels. At the moments of bifurcations, random social factors prevail, ensuring the multivariance of social development. Socio-cultural changes occur in society when the previous ordering of social ties does not guarantee the effectiveness of the functioning of the system. Socio-cultural changes lead to the transformation of society in its morphology, the creation of social forms and structures. Their determinants are mass actions of people. The interpretation of the socio-cultural process reflects the evolution of socio-philosophical thinking. In most approaches, researchers were based on the belief that the laws of the social world are similar to the laws of nature, that society dominates the individual. One of the main features of socio-cultural processes, since they belong to a wide class of self-organization processes, is that they do not have a permanent structure over time and that the changes occurring in them are mostly spontaneous and only partially depend on external influences.

Keywords:socio-cultural process, factors, society, changes, determinants, system.