HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES (a round-table discussion)
The roundtable “Humanities and social technologies” has been held on the 1st of December 2012 at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. The participants delivered papers, and then a general discussion took place. The event has been devoted to the summarizing results of the research project with the same title under the auspices and ﬁnancial support of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (2010-2012). Over 40 researchers, among them young scholars, graduate and undergraduate students took parts in the project. Its purpose was to undertake a conceptual and applied study of the structure and concrete examples of social technologies and uncovering of their inner mechanisms of formation and change.