Abstract
The modern transformational nature of the development of the social system creates uncertainty in the field of characteristics of its newest stage, which is conventionally defined as post-industrialism, as well as its future stages. For a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of the modern transformation process, as well as the determination of its driving forces, it is important to use an adequate research paradigm of the process of social evolution. The article analyzes existing approaches to determining the main institutional factors of the socio-economic development of society, which opens up the possibility of expanding the theoretical base of post-industrialism research and forecasting its main manifestations in the future. The results were obtained thanks to the application of methods: logical-historical – when studying the process of evolution of theoretical approaches to the periodization of economic development; abstractions – when characterizing the main approaches to determining groups of factors of socio-economic development of society; general and special – when establishing the unity of existing approaches regarding institutional factors of socio-economic development of society. It was established that against the background of a large number of theories regarding the main institutional factors of social progress, used in the scientific literature, each of them builds a conditional, simplified, schematic philosophical model of socio-economic evolution and its factors. Thus, among the main sources of socio-economic development of society, scientists distinguish such institutional factors as competition, economic freedom, market mechanism, property, division of labor, distribution mechanisms, social systems, associations, values, ethics, morality, justice, legal norms, contracts, administrative apparatus, science, universities, technostructures, etc. Such a variety of versions indicates the absence of a unified approach to the analysis of the process of formation and development of a new society. It requires a deeper theoretical understanding since the definition of the essence, sources, and forms of manifestation of a new stage of social development opens up prospects for a deeper understanding of its features as an environment in which the entire complex of socio-economic relations of society.
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