Role and Place of the New Elite in the Process of Forming E-Governance
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The purpose article is devoted to the actual problem of the formation of the national scientific elite. The author emphasizes the fact that in the information age only those whose level of knowledge and intelligence will meet the criteria put forward by techno genic civilization will belong to the elite. Thus, the key role of the scientific elite in the further development of the information society in Ukraine is substantiated. According to the results of the research, the author concludes that only awareness in computer science and other modern branches of knowledge in itself does not make a person elitist. This is a matter of definition. It seems that the signs of elitism must first of all remain high spirituality, nobility, refinement, the interned to be useful to people and their Motherland. Today, despite the destruction of the previous elite strata – the aristocracy and the intelligentsia, it remains to be hoped that the new generation of the elite – scientific – will eventually form and play in the society the positive role it claims to be. Methodology. The benchmarking (comparative analysis based on benchmarks) method has been used to identify sources of major contradictions that are found in the most common methodological approaches to solving the problem under consideration in contemporary literature. Methods of logical modelling, generalization and formalization have been applied in the study of the logical and semantic foundations of the emergence and formation of concepts of «elite» and «elitism» as objective and universal criteria for assessing the role of personality in the development of human civilization. The scientific novelty of the approach proposed in the article to solve the problem under study is that it allows to identify the main sources of contradictions in the interpretation of the essence, content and criteria of evaluating the role of the elitist stratum of human society, as well as to outline ways and means of their solution as in conceptual-theoretical and in legal practice. It is substantiated that the formation of moral and ethical criteria using the methods of formal logic is an effective way of overcoming such contradictions. The logical and semantic basis of such conditions is the requirement that the set of possible situations in which at the same time the whole set of rules of behaviour of the scientific, economic and political elite should not exceed the limits of the sphere of logical «indicator» of empirical confirmation of the relevant criteria formed by the society in the course of human civilization. Conclusions. The logical criteria of the socio-political and moral-ethical nature of the concepts of «elite» and «elitism» allow not only to carry out a clear assessment of the role of the individual in the development of human civilization, especially in the context of the process of formation of information society, but also to substantially rationalize this process and guarantee the use of modern achievements science and technology for the benefit of the public interest.
Keywords: elite; scientific elite; theory of elites; criteria of elitism; information society.
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