Forms of Social and Cultural Processes: to the Methodology of Study

Abstract: The article proves the necessity of studying the forms of sociocultural processes, and presents the existing scientific possibilities.

Keywords: microdynamics, parabola, process, growth, sinusoid, form of a process, cycle, evolvent, evolution.   

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