Briukhovetskyi M. Knowledge as a factor of social and economic development of information society.

Object: the information society as a form of existence of social reality at the present stage of its development. The purpose is to identify the influence of knowledge as a socio-economic factor in the development of the information society on the components of social production, taking into account the previous stages of development of society, in substantiating the changing nature of socially essential labor and the socially significant consequences of such influence. Methods are dialectical approach, system approach, interdisciplinary approach; historical and comparative-historical, classification and typology, terminology analysis, idealization and extrapolation. The dissertation researches the influence of knowledge as a socio-economic factor of the development of the information society in its various manifestations (subjective, codified, materialized) on such components of production as means of labor, product of labor and the subject of labor. The tendency to deepen communication of knowledge with elements of production at the stage of the information society, as compared with the previous epochs of the development of society is fixed. An attempt to explain the evolution of labor from the physical side to the intellectual and rapid dissemination of the latter in the information society through the growing role of knowledge in the subject of labor has been made. It is concluded that the growing relationship of knowledge with the elements of production and distribution of intellectual labor leads to a number of social consequences, including almost complete inability of exploitation under conditions of intellectual labor domination, rethinking the traditional social and legal concept of property in the departure from the solely material understanding of the means, the product and the subject of labor, as well as the rethinking of the function of the capitalist, as the owner of the means and products of labor, the supplier of the subject of labor in production, and therefore the organizer of production in general. Sphere of application is the educational process.