Pro sens zhittia z pozytsii sotsiolohichnoi refleksii

• Authors: Andrii Yakovenko

Title variants

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ABOUT THE SENSE OF LIFE FROM VIEWPOINT OF SOCIOLOGIC REFLECTION

• Languages of publication: UK

Abstracts

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The author stands up for the position of the prevailing right of sociology (before philosophy and psychology) as to the study of life senses from applied and socio-prognostic basis. The author considers main reasons determining, in his opinion, traditions of rather restrained relation of sociologic science to the life-sense problems. He substantiates the investigation of social problems not only from the “value” platform but also from that of “life senses”. He also presents a series of arguments which condition contradictions within dominating in the society treatments of values, if they are analyzed from the viewpoint of finding/loss of the sense of life. The emphasis is made on creation of a certain “cult” of the correct sense of life in the society which was favoured in historical perspective by all world religions and world ideologies which dominated after the beginning of the process of secularization. Actually, there is the identity of key positions as to the “correct”, “true” sense of life among the absolute majority of key varieties of religious-ideological foundations of mankind. There is, respectively, a contradictory influence of the tradition of cultivating the correct sense of life on socium and individual’s self-determination with allowance for the actual conditions of vital activity. There are series of arguments in favour of more detailed investigation of life purports in the period of globalization, in particular, in connection with the considerable influence of globalization processes on deformation and often desacralization of traditional purports concerning the sense of life.

Keywords

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SENSE OF LIFE; VALUES; CONTRADICTIONS; WORLD RELIGIONS; IDEOLOGIC DOCTRINES; GLOBALIZATION PROCESSES

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; http://www.i-soc.kiev.ua
• Journal: Sotsiolohiia: teoriia, metody, marketyng (Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing)
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 121-142

Contributors

author

Andrii Yakovenko

• Department of Sociology of Volodymyr Dal’ East-Ukrainian National University, Luhansk