SOCIAL TIME: CONCEPT OR REALITY?

Abstract

This article examines some matters connected with the ontological status of social time, analyzes the epistemological, historical and philosophical aspects of the concept «social time”, its relationship with objective and subjective reality. The authors make a conclusion about the dual nature of the philosophical definition of social time, which is a concept and, at the same time, the phenomenon of reality, the area of interaction of individuals, social groups, peoples and civilizations as a social form of contemporary being.