AUTOPOIETIC SYSTEMS OF SOCIAL BEING

Abstract

The paper analyzes the possibility of explicating the idea of being in the context of socio- philosophical interpretation of the theory of social self-descriptions. The difficulties encountered in the course of this explication and connected with the uncertainty of the concept of social being in modern social philosophy are shown. The examples are given of the evolution of social self-descriptions in the course of social development and their analysis in terms of conceptualization of existential elements and autopoietic measurement. The relevance is stressed of introducing the concept of being in the theory of social self-descriptions for the development of modern social sciences ontology.