Abstract
Objective: Institutional economics drew the attention of scientists to the fact that ideal constructions (laws, traditions, values, etc.) play an equally important role in the life of society than material systems (people, cities, cars, etc.). The purpose of the article is to search for principles of interaction between the ideal and material foundations of human society. Materials and Methods: Extensive interdisciplinary juxtaposition of the fundamental system theories of material and ideal systems (Jan Smuts’s holistic systems, body-mind problem in the lighting of Karl Popper). Finding: It seems to us expedient to introduce the concept of ideomaterial systems, some of the elements of which are material and some of them are ideal. In addition, we prove that human society (including the economy) is a polysystem, that is, a superposition of many fuzzy dynamic systems (economic, religious, scientific, cultural) interacting with each other; each human is simultaneously a member of many subsystems of society. The main resource of social systems is the time that every person gives to participate in them, be it a family, science or football. Applications: The proposed approach of ideomaterial polysystems opens a wide field of research for all social sciences, especially for economics and political science. Keywords: Ideomaterial System, Mind-body Problem, Polysystem, Social Institutes, System Theory
Highlights
The relationship between the material and the ideal in man and society is still a battlefield between various areas in philosophy and sociology[1,2,3]
The laws of interaction of physics say that bodies with mass and opposite charges attract, the laws of mathematics say that numbers are added and multiplied, the laws of economics speak about the connection of labor and capital, prices and the amount of money in circulation, and so on
We propose the approach to examining such subsystems as the ideomaterial, that is, including people, artifacts and a system of ideas, determinative the structure and functions, creates a new wide field of social and economic research
Summary
The relationship between the material and the ideal in man and society is still a battlefield between various areas in philosophy and sociology[1,2,3]. If the “continental” philosophy still preserves the problematic of the relationship between the material and ideal world (Socrates-Plato-Aristotle-Hegel line), for “analytic” it is, quite a pseudo-problem. This is even manifested in the translation of the word “idea” Man himself is in this sense is like an organization; the matter in his body is constantly being replaced, but the structure determined by genetic information changes (in the process of growing up and aging) much more slowly Large social systems, such as nations, states, religions, sciences, engineering disciplines, have a material, seemingly rigid, but in reality, current basis and the systems of ideas that determine their structure. Their relationship is of considerable interest to sociology and economics
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