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AZERBAIJAN: CHALLENGES OF THE MODERN WORLD

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  • Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

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  • 2010
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In the article the modern problems of development of Azerbaijan in a context of its cultural heritage are considered and some models, capable of lowering challenges and risks of the modern world of globalization are presented. In this connection the following blocks of problems are presented: 1. The basic geopolitical factor - globalization, - rendering solving this influence on a course of world processes as a whole, is considered in changes of political, economic and cultural scripts of the development of Azerbaijan. 2. The paradigm –Social-cultural models of the development - is considered within the limits of processes of modernization with reference to the experience of Azerbaijan. 3. It is noted that the standard division of culture into material and spiritual not only is not enough, but also interferes with the practical realization of theoretical installations of models of interrelation of cultural tradition and social development. 4. In this connection into the discourse is entered a conception - the social culture, allowing us to define which social-cultural model is preferable for optimum development of the Azerbaijan society and for the activity of its individuals - the carrier of certain cultural traditions. 5. In article}on the basis of ideas of Francis Fukuyama about the so-called «Great Disruption», the problem of their becoming in Azerbaijan variants of «Great Disruption» and a modern condition of this phenomenon are discussed.6. The general condition of the spiritual and cultural searches united at a world outlook level by the concept of a postmodernism, which has destroyed an habitual classical picture of the world, is analysed, having replaced the world of objects (and subjects) by the world of sporadic arising networks of mutual relations between them. Unlike natural processes, processes of a social reality are constantly designed by the person (T.Lukman) and it creates a uniqueness of the environment, examined on an example of Azerbaijan society.
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Let's pay attention, that Ionin presenting trinomial partitioning of culture, refers to the book (Kroeber A., Kluckhohn C. Culture. A critical review of concepts and definitions/Cambridge, Massachusetts), left in the USA in the middle of the last century (1952). Our backlog, hence, is equal approximately to half a century.
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10. In the same place. 11. « All societies have some reserve of the social capital; real distinctions between them are connected by that it is possible to name «radius of trust » … Obviously, that in any case family - is an important source of the social capital ». Фукуяма. Ф. Великий Разрыв, с. 31.
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14. In this connection I shall allow myself to bring a rather big citation from F.Fukuyama's book: “The social capital is not any rare and precious object which was created once in the century of belief and handed down by virtue of ancient tradition. It has either no constant source, which today is destroyed by us, modern secular people. However though the stock of the social capital replenishes constantly, this process does not go automatically easy and without costs. The same invention, which increases productivity or creates a new industry, undermines existing community or makes all way of life out-of-date. The societies rising on the escalator of technological progress are constantly compelled to play overtaking, as social rules develop to correspond to changed economic conditions. The mechanical production moves people from village to city and separates husbands from families while information technologies return them in the countryside and push women for work. Nuclear families disappear with the advent of agriculture, appear and again with industrialization and start to fall into decay with transition to the postindustrial era. People can in due course adapt to all these changed conditions, but speed of technological changes frequently can exceed the speed of the social adaptation. When manufacture of the social capital is not capable to satisfy the requirement, societies have to pay the expensive price for it.
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In the society there are two processes, developing in parallel. In the political and economic sphere history is progressive and linear, and at the end of 20th century liberal democracy as a unique viable choice for technologically developed societies became the culmination of it. In the social and moral sphere, however, history, apparently, is cyclic, and the social capital decreases and grows during the life of numerous generations. There is nothing that would guarantee growth of the social capital in a cycle. The unique basis for hope is very powerful internal human abilities to a reconstruction of the social order. On success of this process of the reconstruction depends, whether the arrow of History will be directed upwards » (pp. 383-384).
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