Vestnik Samarskogo universiteta. Ekonomika i upravlenie Vestnik of Samara University. Economics and ManagementVestnik Samarskogo universiteta. Ekonomika i upravlenie Vestnik of Samara University. Economics and Management2542-04612782-3008Samara National Research University669510.18287/2542-0461-2018-9-4-%pUnknownUSE OF SYNERGETIC (BIFURCATION) DIRECTIONS OF THE SYSTEM APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF SOCIETYKlyuchnikovSergei Alexandrovichlioner97@mail.ruSamara National Research University01042018940206201902062019Copyright © 2018,2018<p>The article deals with synergetic (bifurcation) stage of the system approach development in the study of social phenomena. The undoubted merit of this stage is that within its framework scientists managed to formulate ideas about nonlinear systems. The ways of transition from a chaotic state to a new order were marked. At the same time, new concepts are introduced: bifurcation, fluctuation, etc. It is believed that this conceptual apparatus allows us to describe society in an unstable state. But not enough attention is paid to how to avoid this situation of instability.</p>системный подходнелинейная системафлуктуациябифуркацияаттрактордиссипативная структура.system approachnonlinear systemfluctuationbifurcationattractordissipative structure.[1. Vasilkova V.V. Sinergetika i sotsiologicheskii evoliutsionizm [Synergetics and sociological evolutionism]. In: Sinergeticheskaia paradigma. Chelovek i obshchestvo v usloviiakh nestabil’nosti [Synergetic paradigm. People and society in conditions of instability]. M.: Progress-Traditsiia, 2003, pp. 50–58 [in Russian].][2. Stepin V.S. Sinergetika i sistemnyi analiz [Synergetics and system analysis]. In: Sinergeticheskaia paradigma. Kognitivno-kommunikativnye strategii sovremennogo nauchnogo poznaniia [Synergetic paradigm. Cognitive and communicative strategies of modern scientific cognition]. M.: Progress-Traditsiia, 2004, pp. 58–71 [in Russian].][3. Sadovsky V.N. Liudvig fon Bertalanfi i razvitie sistemnykh issledovanii v XX veke [Ludwig von Bertalanffy and the development of system studies in the twentieth century]. In: Sistemnyi podkhod v sovremennoi nauke. Otvetstvennye redaktory: I.K. Liseev, V.N. Sadovskii [System approach in modern science. I.K. Liseev, V.N. Sadovsky (Eds.)]. M.: Progress-Traditsiia, 2004, pp. 7–36 [in Russian].][4. Chernikova I.V., Chernikova D.V. Vozmozhnosti sotsiosinergetiki v teoreticheskikh issledovaniiakh sotsial’nosti [Possibilities of sociosynergetics in theoretical studies of sociality]. In: Sinergeticheskaia paradigma [Synergetic paradigm]. M.: Sotsial’naia Progress-Traditsiia, 2009, pp. 63–78 [in Russian].][5. Prigogine I. Filosofiia nestabil’nosti [Philosophy of instability]. Voprosy filosofii, 1991, no. 6, pp. 46–52 [in Russian].][6. Prigogine I., Stengers I. Poriadok iz khaosa [Order out of chaos]. M.: Progress, 1986, 263 p. [in Russian].][7. Sinergeticheskaia paradigma. Kognitivno-kommunikativnye strategii sovremennogo nauchnogo poznaniia [Synergetic paradigm. Cognitive-communicative strategies of modern scientific cognition]. M.: Progress-Traditsiia, 2004, 560 p. [in Russian].][8. Vagurin V.A. Sinergetika evoliutsii sovremennogo obshchestva [Synergetics of evolution of modern society]. Lugansk: Kopitsentr, 2005, 200 p. [in Russian].]