Social Contract: Evolution of Ideas and Practices
Thursday, 10 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: FSE021 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations (host committee)
Language: English
The ideas of the social contract were developed by T. Hobbes, J. Locke and other thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment. They interpreted its content as the ultimate expression of open and latent forms of agreement on interaction and mutual support between the people and the government represented by political power.
At present, the social contract idea has become popular due to the need to reveal its essential foundations, as well as to update the meaning and mechanism of interaction between the people and the government, taking into account the new challenges of the global world. For a sociological analysis of the contemporary interpretation of the social contract, it is important to consider the correlation between the basic motivations, value systems and interests of people and the government policy, and to identify the grounds for the agreement between them. The combination of these phenomena makes it possible to study the essence of the social contract that is the social contract between the government and the people in all its diversity and in many aspects.
The evolution of ideas, as well as social practices inherent in different peoples at different times show the specifics of a social contract in different historic periods. We hope to attract participants with materials that will allow comparisons to be made. Comparing the ideas of the social contract and practices existing in different countries allows us to take into account the local experience for updating the concept of the social contract in the modern globalizing world.
Session Organizer:
Miroslava TSAPKO, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russian Federation
Chair:
Natalia BELOVA, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russian Federation
Panelists:
Nikolai CHEREPANOV, RANEPA, Russian Federation,
Cristiano GIANOLLA, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal,
Tatyana VELIKAYA, Russian Federation,
Demyan TSAPKO, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russian Federation,
Alevtina MOISEEVA, Russian state University for the Humanities, Russian Federation,
Evgeniy ZVEREV, Russian Academy of Sciences - Institute of Sociology, Russian Federation,
Vanda Amaro DIAS, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal,
Anna MIRONOVA, RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOR THE HUMANITIES, Russian Federation and
Nikita KOMAROV, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russian Federation
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