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- Authors: Bersenev V.L.1
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- Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 7, No 3 (2025)
- Pages: 13-19
- Section: DEBATING ISSUES OF HISTORY
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/2658-4654/article/view/350139
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.33693/2658-4654-2025-7-3-13-19
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/sznmtn
- ID: 350139
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The article attempts to answer the question of how acceptable and possible it is to use the methodological and methodical arsenal of synergetics in historical research. It is noted that synergetics as an interdisciplinary methodology originated in the field of natural sciences (physics, chemistry, etc.), but currently finds application in social sciences and humanities. However, this trend creates the danger of pseudoscientific speculation using categories characteristic of synergetics (bifurcation point, attractor, fluctuation, etc.) As a compromise, it is proposed to consider the methodology of synergetics as a heuristic template for conducting research in such areas of social science as economics, sociology and history. Of particular interest is the use of the scheme of evolution of complexly organized systems in a specific branch of knowledge — the history of economics. The theories of socio-economic formations, economic cycles, technological patterns, etc., thus receive a new and original interpretation.
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Vladimir L. Bersenev
Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: colbers@bk.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3554-6965
Dr. Sci. (Hist.), Professor, Leading Researcher
Russian Federation, YekaterinburgReferences
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