Social human system as an epistemological problem of complexity theory

Abstract

© 2019, Research Trend. All rights reserved. This article discusses the preliminary results of the study aimed at studying the features of the paradigm complexity in the social Sciences and Humanities. Its main goal is to contribute to the epistemological development of social synergetics as an independent disciplinary field, leaving behind the influence that it retains from the paradigm of complexity in the social Sciences and Humanities. The interdisciplinary nature of this study determines the volume (set) of methods used, although it focuses on a synergistic approach, thanks to which objects, phenomena and processes are studied as complex open systems characterized by self-organization. In this study, we used general scientific methods, such as analysis and synthesis, modeling and idealization, as well as concretization and abstraction. To these should be added the dialectical method, the historical-philosophical method and the synergetic approach. Complex social systems are discussed, and a distinction is made between “social human systems,” which become a fundamental research problem. The most notable results are a critical proposition of the concepts “systemic paraparadigm” and “multicomplexity”. The latter is revealed as the equivalent of a complexity paradigm adapted to the characteristics of the social and human sciences. The study is devoted to a very urgent problem in the epistemological and practical field.