Communicative Concepts of “Sustainable Development” of Society at the Turn of the XX–XXI Centuries

Abstract

The study analyzes the communicative concepts of society at the turn of the XX–XXI centuries. Attention is drawn to the fact that the concept of “communication” is a system-forming one in social science theories and can be used as the basis for creating complex trajectories of the modern world. The purpose of this study is to generalize the methodological concepts of social communication in the Western social thought of the XX–XXI centuries. The research method is a historiographical and retrospective analysis of the communicative concepts of N. Luhmann, P. Bourdieu, P. Berger and T. Lukman, whose works are the research material. A constructivist method based on the construction of social reality was also used. The result of the research is the creation of sustainable models of social reality in Western philosophical thought. The authors emphasize that social thinkers of the late twentieth century pay attention to the increasing complexity of network social interactions and the increasing role of information which they get. It is recognized as the most significant process of people recreating and expanding their socio-anthropological space, the fact that as human beings we possess only the world that we create together with other people in the process of social interaction.