Creative Intelligentsia As an Actualizer of the Social Contract
Creative Intelligentsia As an Actualizer of the Social Contract
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Location: FSE021 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
Distributed Paper
The challenges of the times provoke a revision of the social contract. The
digitalization of all major spheres of life has given rise to digital hygiene, which is
designed to minimize the negative consequences of the loss of privacy, lack of
control and verification of data, an avalanche of incoming data from the expanded
information field. However, maintaining personal digital hygiene cannot ensure the necessary level of human
security without special mechanisms set up by the state. And the state itself and its
individual institutions often suffer from modern digital technologies, requiring a
certain moral code observed by its citizens.
Another pressing problem of the modern world is the revision of the rules of
international coexistence developed as a result of the Second World War. Complex
geopolitical processes have led to changes in both the political and economic life
of most countries in the world.
These problems are unfolding against the backdrop of global environmental
transformations, the consequences of which have not yet been fully predicted.
Thus, new conditions of human life are created, new needs are formed and
require the state to satisfy them. In turn, the state needs greater sacrifices from its
citizens, since it is forced to maintain its own political, economic and
communication security.
The formation of specific provisions of the social contract that meet the
needs of both the citizen and the state is produced and broadcast by people who
have the ability to express the opinions of different social groups, including
through formats that are easily perceived by a wide audience. These are literary
and musical works, films, plays, television programs, works of fine art. In the Russian tradition, it is called the creative intelligentsia.
Its representatives have always been perceived by sociologists as cultural subjects
who create models and norms for the entire society. The role of the creative
intelligentsia in actualizing the social contract is a topic for discussion in the
international sociological community.
digitalization of all major spheres of life has given rise to digital hygiene, which is
designed to minimize the negative consequences of the loss of privacy, lack of
control and verification of data, an avalanche of incoming data from the expanded
information field. However, maintaining personal digital hygiene cannot ensure the necessary level of human
security without special mechanisms set up by the state. And the state itself and its
individual institutions often suffer from modern digital technologies, requiring a
certain moral code observed by its citizens.
Another pressing problem of the modern world is the revision of the rules of
international coexistence developed as a result of the Second World War. Complex
geopolitical processes have led to changes in both the political and economic life
of most countries in the world.
These problems are unfolding against the backdrop of global environmental
transformations, the consequences of which have not yet been fully predicted.
Thus, new conditions of human life are created, new needs are formed and
require the state to satisfy them. In turn, the state needs greater sacrifices from its
citizens, since it is forced to maintain its own political, economic and
communication security.
The formation of specific provisions of the social contract that meet the
needs of both the citizen and the state is produced and broadcast by people who
have the ability to express the opinions of different social groups, including
through formats that are easily perceived by a wide audience. These are literary
and musical works, films, plays, television programs, works of fine art. In the Russian tradition, it is called the creative intelligentsia.
Its representatives have always been perceived by sociologists as cultural subjects
who create models and norms for the entire society. The role of the creative
intelligentsia in actualizing the social contract is a topic for discussion in the
international sociological community.