Social conflict and risk in interdisciplinary analysis

Abstract

The article analyzes conflict and risk from the standpoint of an interdisciplinary approach, which is increasingly gaining recognition and authority as a methodological paradigm that opens up scientific prospects, especially in the analysis of the multi-component phenomena of social life. Claims of Conflictology as a young science to be interdisciplinary in nature are due to its subject, the way of interaction in society, penetrating all spheres, and at the same time denying and affirming connections and dependencies at the same time, thereby determining the image of society itself. Society as a system in the disciplinary paradigm of conflict analysis is presented as a product of contradictions that manifest themselves in conflict as a destructive force. This force threatens existing security and seeks to abolish existing systems of relations. In the interdisciplinary paradigm, the destructive function of conflict is conceived as a preparatory stage for its creative ability to resolve the accumulated contradictions. In the disciplinary paradigm, conflict is a way of destroying the world; in an interdisciplinary one, it is a way of destroying the old and creating a new world. In the first case, the non-systemic nature of the conflict is indicated, in the second, it is indicated that the conflict is the law of the existing system, without which this system cannot reproduce itself. Turning to interdisciplinary analysis allows us to see in the conflict both its negative and positive properties, regardless of how antagonistic the opposites that take place in society are. Interdisciplinary analysis also leads us to an understanding of the identity and difference between conflict and risk, allowed us to consider the issue of social risk in the context of the issue of conflict, reveal the socio-genetic relationship between them and come to the conclusion that conflict produces risk, the latter is fixed in relationships, becoming their indispensable element, exerting a reverse effect on the conflict, setting limits for the actions of the interacting parties.