Institutional Change and War: Changing Autopoiesis
Institutional Change and War: Changing Autopoiesis

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the problem of theoretical foundations for analyzing the processes of transition of a social system from one type of social institutions to another. The author proposes to use the concept of autopoiesis for this purpose, assuming that it is possible to distinguish different types of autopoiesis that different social systems possess. The crisis of the previous social system is accompanied by the loss of autopoiesis, anomie and “double socialization” – a state when the previous social institutions no longer work, and the new ones do not work yet. The author believes that until the moment of change in the type of autopoiesis, the entire body of social institutions changes on the previous basis, in separate moments, without changing as a whole. War makes it impossible to continue the crisis of social institutions and opens up the possibility of changing the type of autopoiesis of the social system, as a result of which its transition to a state of new institutional integrity is completed.

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