Boguslavskaya U. Utopia as a form of social foresight.

The object of scientific analysis is a phenomenon of social foreseeing. The subject matter of dissertation is utopian form of social foreseeing. Theoretical and methodological base of the investigation is constituted from general theoretical methods of philosophical analysis: logical, historical, comparative analysis. Also in the work social philosophical, epistemological, social prognostic, behaviorist, social-technological, linguistically-semantic macro sociological approaches to the analysis of social utopia and utopian foreseeing have been used. In the thesis at the first time in national social philosophy utopia as a form of social foreseeing of reality was systematically investigated. At the first time in national social philosophy was analyzed such form of prognostic utopia as time(techno)punk, sub forms of which are cyberpunk, nanopunk, biopunk, cosopunk, etc. The results of the investigation can be applied in teacher's work for elaboration of lectures and seminars in correspondent courses and special courses on the problems of philosophy, sociology and politology, methodology of social cognition, history of social utopian ideas, and history of philosophical and sociological thought, social prognosis.