Illiachova M. The structural method in the exploration of the phenomenon of the "Social Time" (Limits and Possibilities of Use).

The Thesis enlightened the problem of determining the structural dimensions of the phenomenon of social time. The paper recovered the conditions of formation of social and philosophical concepts of social time and classified theoretical and methodological approaches to the definition of this phenomenon. The structure of social time is revealed through the relations of its invariant elements, but not through these elements itself. The paper also stated that the definition of the dynamic and functional nature of social time creates the opportunity to reflect changes in time structures in the context of the temporal complexity of social time. Dissertations proved that the time is not only a universal dimension of social change, but their basis, constituting factuality. Society can exist only insofar as something happens, changes, that means: ontologically society does not exist and can not exist in an unmodified state. The matter is not just in changing events in time, namely in the time of the events, is in temporalization elements of the system.