Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-7671 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1948 (Online)


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Transdisciplinarity of modern science as a form of social consensus

Introduction. Transdisciplinarity can be reinterpreted from a scientific and philosophical category to a socio-philosophical one by referring to the theoretical constructions of social consensus. In this case, its general social functions are emphasized, which are the social and communication effect of transdisciplinary interactions between science and society. Theoretical analysis. The socio-philosophical analysis of transdisciplinarity is formed in the field of categories of sociality, time, object, truth and values.

Social Psychological Researches Relevance Problem

This paper targets an urgent problem of interpreting processes associated with intergroup behaviour. The matter of relevance emergence not according to a necessity of distinguishing the phenotypic vs. the genotypic. It is harder to draw a line between «individual» and «common» social behaviour. This demands developing such an interpretation system, which would be adequate for multiple issues being solved by social sciences, and which the separation between the general vs. the individual would be inapplicable to.