Рулетката на живота (Към нова методология за социални описания и анализи)
The “Life Roulette”: Towards a Methodology for Social Descriptions and Analyses

Summary/Abstract: This article is a recapitulation of a long research of the author. One guiding theoretical presupposition is that individuals’ lives are connected to each other through 1) coexistence, which leads to the socially defined “we as belonging”, and 2) cooperation, which presupposes unity and co-existence expressed by the concept of “we as socially organizing”. Another presupposition is the interpretation of social evolution in two ways: 1) as a spontaneous constituting, consolidation, and self-regulation, and 2) as organizational integration. Two stages of sociogenesis are thus differentiated: 1) “social mass – social aggregation – social organism, and 2) primary social substance – intermediate-arty-social substance – macro-arty-social substance”. A two fold coordinate matrix cell structure is developed on that conceptual ground, in the form of a universally applicable sociological model, here named “snowfall”. Next, 7 fundamental social mechanisms are defined. The operation of these models – parallel and interfering – is described through the so-called “Life Roulette”. The “Life Roulette” concept is a tool that presents the sociological mechanism of social functioning and development. Each of these 7 social sub-systems, here formulated as specific cells, is analyzed separately: energy / motivation; potential / opportunities; subjectivity / egotism; power / freedom; management / decision-making; productivity / goal obtaining; and, efficiency / content. The core of individuals’ social life is defined in the context of the interaction of these 7 basic mechanisms.

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