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Дигиталната социология: основания и предизвикателства
Digital Sociology: Reasons and Challenges

Author(s): Georgi Fotev
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, History and theory of sociology, Social development, Social differentiation, Social Theory
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: digital revolution; digital society; social networks; deterritorialization

Summary/Abstract: The Fourth industrial revolution, called digital, is associated with a radical transformation of society (digital society emerges) and a social reality that is twofold: offline and online social reality. The digitalization of social life is deterritorialization, which poses in a fundamentally new way the classical problem of sociology, “How is social order possible?” Unlike natural science, whose subject is a-historical, the subject of sociology (society) is historically determined, and for this reason with each historical turn a new sociology emerges, which, however, does not make the previous one meaningless. Digital sociology as new is not a negation of “old” sociology, just as quantum physics is not a negation of Newtonian physics. Digital sociology seeks its place in post-non-classical science and faces serious challenges related to the place of man in a social world inhabited by intelligent machines or non-humans as social agents.

  • Issue Year: 53/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 664-685
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Bulgarian