Invariantnist’ suspil’noho rozvytku: metodolohichni implikatsii

Methodological implications within the framework of sociological theory about determinancy of socio-historical process allow the author to state the thesis about invariancy of the vector of society development. The hypothesis is based on a statement of stability of socio-cultural component during the periods of social changes, which is verified by historical experience of concrete societies. Generalizing results of own research with a postulate of structure of social action, concepts of autopoietic systems, trans-historical structures and institutional matrices the author makes a conclusion about limitation of possibilities of social creativity and amplitude of alternatives of societal development. In the context of transfomation processes on the post-Soviet territory the assumption is expressed of impossibility of construction in local conditions the Western type liberal societies and market-based economies, as those inappropriate to logic of immanent development.