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LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND CIVIL INITIATIVES // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2011. Issue 11 (113). P. 192-198

The article deals with the terms “civil society” and “local community”, it reveals their common etymology, functional definitions, signs of civil society in local communities are given, the criteria for the structuring of local communities based on civic initiatives and application of social engineering in the formation of civil society in local communities are determined.

Keywords: local community, civil society, local self-management, civil initiatives, structuring of local communities, social engineering, public associations

CAPABILITIES OF THE OBJECT-SUBJECT CONSTELLATIONS IN THE STUDY OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2013. Issue 2 (130). P. 209-215

To substantiate the possibility of election of the “local community” as a object of research in social philosophy, and due to its space of the social relationships of people living there is action-oriented research, deterministic methods of social topology. The space of the local community is described with new categorical spatial concepts. The local community is shown as a cumulative subject of public actions with their own logic of formation, with similarities and differences in the forms of the device, the exposure to globalization effects. The study reveals forms of their own logic, topologic of local communities in terms of doxa and habitus.

Keywords: local community, topology, topologic, social space, its own logic of formation, globalization, homogenization, heterogenization, doxa, habitus, “spatial turn”