Sokolova K. Transformation of social time and space in modern information society.

The object is space and time correlation of social existence on different stages of historical development of humanity. The aim is to study the system influence of informatization on the change of social space and time correlation as social existence modi by means of philosophical analysis. The methods used are principles of historical method, coincidence of historical and logical; system, historical-comparative, phenomenological and hermeneutical methods. Changes of space and time characteristics of social existence in agricultural, industrial and information ages have been studied. It has been found out that the changes of basic social time parameters and space differentiation make the role of informatization process more significant. The analysis of social existence modi in the information society allows conceiving informatization as social-cultural development caused by globalization. In this society informatization is not only a technological or instrumental fact but also a cultural phenomenon revealed in postindustrial stage. Social development has been proceeding from predominance of technological and economic tendencies to prevalence of global informational values of the society determined as cominformation. The process of personality formation takes place in contradictory conditions of time-space modi virtualization of individual existence under the influence of depersonalized social communication and manipulate features of information. The application sphere is training courses.