The Issue of Fundamental Social Constants in Humanitarian Knowledge
In recent decades, in Russian literature, special attention has been paid to the category of “fundamental social constants”, which makes it possible to highlight the fundamental characteristics of civilizational development. Moreover, in studies of this kind, it is possible to supplement the already established features of the material-material plan for the development of cultural and historical communities with symbolic aspects. They make it possible to operate with such concepts of natural science as a code or a matrix, creating the concepts of “sociocode”, “cultural code” or “institutional matrix” that have rich heuristic potential. Humanitarian research from the standpoint of fundamental social constants demonstrates a kind of “reversal” of the foundations, adopted in the traditional socio-philosophical analysis. The study of various fundamental social constants in the development of the Russian civilization has become the main topic of scientific developments in the Department of Humanities of the Financial University.