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INDIVIDUAL, SYSTEM AND SOCIETY
Ivan Cifrić
; Odsjek za sociologiju, Filozofski fakultet,Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This paper analyzes some aspects of the relationship between the individual and society or social system. The author differentiates between the terms society and system. These terms have become two mutually opposed worlds of their own. The first term is understood as the relationship between individuals who create the society by the mediation of the system of values and ethical norms. The latter term is understood as the relation between formal institutions organized by different regimes that create the system on the basis of rights and power. Modern society is marked by the increasing strength of the system as opposed to the individual and society. The paper examines the changes occurring between these two worlds by looking at various aspects: institutional, developmental, communication, political, time, cultural, scientific, methodological, as well as through the control and goals analysis. The system rationalizes itself and becomes a purpose in itself instead of serving the society. Modern society is marked by the increasing strength of the system and the alienated individual becomes a number, helpless when faced with the system. The thesis about the “methodological turn” in science (sociology) is advocated in the paper. The system should be examined methodologically and looked at critically as a whole rather than as individual processes and conditions within the whole.
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Hrčak ID:
87752
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Datum izdavanja:
27.9.2012.
Posjeta: 9.967 *