Diagnosing the synergically complex risks through the content of the cultural genotype

Abstract

The article examines the process of the development and complication of risks, starting with the transition from the traditional society to the “risk society” and the “world risk society” and further to the modern society, the essential features of which, according to the anthroposociocultural approach of N. I. Lapin, are “synergistic complexities”. They represent realities as the result of a nonlinear process of their formation in the context of the past, present and future. Their immanent essence is manifested in the self-development, self-organization and hybridization of nature, society, technology, which is expressed in the emergent effects of instability, inequality, and dynamic chaos that cover all the spheres of human life. As a result, risks become qualitatively more complex – they ultimately acquire the synergistically complex nature. However, at all stages of their development, the content of risks is determined not only by global trends of the transformation of the universe, but also by local national factors and the genotype of country’s culture. Seven types of synergistic complexities established in the new Russia and the synergistically complex risks that correspond to them are considered and analyzed. To diagnose these types of risks, the author’s nonlinear humanistic sociological imagination is proposed.