COMPUTER FRACTAL MODELING AND POLITOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DESTRUCTION OF TRADITIONAL INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS

The authors substantiate the objectives for the prospective research program dedicated to the destruction of the traditional informal institutions - the TII. TII is considered by many experts as one of the most significant obstacles for modernization of all systems of Russian socio-political institutions. The article contains a description of the social problems associated with the presence of the TII, also literature analysis on this issue and the statement of the suggested methodology. Creating fractal computer models is a new and highly promising research tool, not only in the natural sciences, but also in the socio-humanitarian disciplines. In the article it is talked about the approaches of construction of a fractal model that imitate, in particular, the transformation of the socio-political institutions (General fractal transition model - GFTM). Also we provide some most interesting - qualitative interpretation of experiments on the simulation of institutional modernization. Hypothetical variants of forced institutional modernization are constructed. Some non-linear effects that arise during the transformation of the "sedimentary" social structures are found. The whole set of such effects authors call "turbulent" accelerated modernization.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2013-7-12