THE THEORY OF COOPERATION IN MODERN SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE
The article attempts at determining the trends of modern civilization development putting into practice the theory of cooperation as a special type of social and industrial relationships based on cooperative ownership, overcoming the alienation of labor and operating in small organizational forms. The restoration of the dominant role of the individual in economic process, the absence of alternatives to cooperation in certain economic and social «niches» as well as a non-massive character of consumer market account for a new stage in the conceptualization of cooperation.