KNYAZEVA, E.N., KURKINA, E.S. THE PATHS OF HISTORY AND IMAGES OF FUTURE HUMANITY: SINERGY OF GLOBAL PROCESSES IN HISTORY (FINAL PART)

Abstract: Viewing the development of human civilization from the point of “blow-up regime” we can describe just the main trend while a more precise analysis helps to uncover socioeconomic and sociocultural cycles also existing there. Sociocultural cycling usually means just a pattern of ups and downs, rise and fall, speed-up and slow-down . The process within the cycle usually consists of three or four stages.