Территориальная самоорганизация общества как область исследований и учебная дисциплина

Society's spatial self-organization research was historically developed in the bad of theoretical geography in Soviet Union, later in Russia. The main ideas of such a stream are the ideas of equality of causal and finalistic explanation, of spatial self-organization as a quasi-natural phenomenon, of the structure as an invariant aspect of the systems. The last enables us to use the invariants as a characteristic of social space symmetry. The transformation of the usual ideas about causality is of a big importance for the student's scientific world view. The course "Society's spatial self-organization" long of half-year is delivered to the master students of the Department of geography, Moscow State University having a specialization in social and economic geography.

attractors, causal explanation, equifinality, explanation, invariants, mission of university, spatial self-organization, symmetry, аттракторы, инварианты, каузальное объяснение, миссия университета, симметрия, территориальная самоорганизация, финалистское объяснение, эквифинальность

Русский

Региональные исследования. – 2014. – № 4 (46). – С. 40–48.