printSociality in Question:
Searching for Support of Postsociality Ontology
Ignatyev V.I.
Dr. Sci. (Philos.), Prof., Prof. of the Department of Sociology and Mass Communications, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia ighnatiev.v@inbox.ru
Ignatyev V.I. Sociality in Question: Searching for Support of Postsociality Ontology. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2026. No 3. P. 3-14
The article invites to discuss the epistemology of updating the ontology of the social and to further explication of the content of the sociality concept. Texts are analyzed in which the authors used the term (concept) of sociality or recorded its difference from the concept of the social. This distinction was used for a deeper understanding of the ongoing changes and was considered as a basis for constructing a new social ontology. The author proposes to interpret this ontology as an emerging concept of alter- or postsociality. For this purpose, it is proposed to develop concepts and a conceptual apparatus based on further explication of sociality features contained in studies on social ontology and the ontology of modernity. The concepts and conceptual schemes presented in the article, identified in various texts, do in the author’s opinion, contribute to the continued search for answering the question of what social reality has already been formed, what is its ontological picture and qualitative specificity. A version of the interpretation of the sociality features obtained as a result of explication is presented to clarify the content of this concept. Sociality is defined as the ability of multiple agents to form stable units by coordinating and coordinating interactions. The conditions for the transition of modern society to a postsociality state are analyzed.
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