Sociology on the war
The article raises the question of the relation of sociology to modern wars. Scientific knowledge in the modernist and postmodern era is actively exploited by states and governments to enhance the country’s defense capability. The author comes to the conclusion that the turn of sociology has come. D...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Ukrainian |
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V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Український соціологічний журнал |
| Online Access: | https://periodicals.karazin.ua/usocjour/article/view/11518/11378 |
| Summary: | The article raises the question of the relation of sociology to modern wars. Scientific knowledge in the modernist and postmodern era is actively exploited by states and governments to enhance the country’s defense capability. The author comes to the conclusion that the turn of sociology has come. During the Second World War, the US government has attracted representatives of the social sciences to research in defense, including such well-known scholars as Paul Lazarsfeld, Elmo Roper, Louis Guttman, Renss Likert and others. The latest type of war, which the modern Russian-Ukrainian hybrid war fully complies with, requires a lot of specific social knowledge. It forms the theoretical foundation for non-military instruments of the hybrid war. Every such instrument should harm the enemy’s society, destroy the social order and change the consciousness of the population. The maximum task is to achieve a victory before the first shot. The article examines four concepts that have been actively developed since the beginning of zero years by social researchers in the interests of the army and special services: 1) network theory, 2) the theory of controlled chaos, 3) cognitive warfare, 4) the concept of reflexive management. All of them have found practical application in operation «russian spring», which marked the beginning of the active phase of the war in 2014. The question of moral responsibility of social scientists both from the side of the aggressor country and the country that fights sovereignty and freedom is raised. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-5105 2079-1771 |