Nadybska O. Phenomenon of Social Priorities: Value-Epistemological Dimension

The thesis is dedicated to understanding the conceptualization of social priorities as the driving force of complex nonlinear social system. The gnosiologycal functions of the phenomenon of social priorities were distinguished in the thesis. A consistent methodology for study of social priorities, that uses the potential of the phenomenological and communicative philosophy, structuralism and post-structuralism, variations of system analysis and historical sociology, was set up. A spatial model for study of social priorities was proposed. The supplementary points of vision of communicative theory aimed aside of its epistemological dimension were developed. Through the analysis of modern Ukraine the features of the refraction of Western social priorities in the Ukrainian philosophical system were distinguished. It was made a prognosis of potential opportunities of the theories of social priorities for social and political correction.