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<article xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">kaspy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">THE CASPIAN REGION: politics, economics, culture</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic" /><issn publication-format="print">1818-510X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="ru">Астраханский государственный университет им. В. Н. Татищева</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">346</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>SELF-DESTRUCTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY AS THEORETICAL PROBLEM</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>SELF-DESTRUCTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY AS THEORETICAL PROBLEM</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Boytsova</surname><given-names>Olga Yu.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Boytsova</surname><given-names>Olga Yu.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>olga.boitsova@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff740" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff740"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub"><year>2014</year></pub-date><issue>2</issue><fpage>97</fpage><lpage>106</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2014/issue/2/article/346">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2014/issue/2/article/346</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/2(39)/97-106.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/2(39)/97-106.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>There are positive social development alternatives generally associated with the hopes for development of civil society in modern political discourse. However researchers find it hard to come to agreement on key positions - is whether the question of civil society substance or its structure, relation between the State and the individual, role in modern conditions, etc. This makes the analysis of the theoretical bases of the concept of civil society extremely important. The article deals with adapting to the constitutive principles of civil society and shows that behind the trend are Relativizing the values and norms is self-destruction the reason. The article focuses on constitutive principium of civil society and suggests that in-built tendency to relativization of values and norms leads to self-destruction of its foundations.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>There are positive social development alternatives generally associated with the hopes for development of civil society in modern political discourse. However researchers find it hard to come to agreement on key positions - is whether the question of civil society substance or its structure, relation between the State and the individual, role in modern conditions, etc. This makes the analysis of the theoretical bases of the concept of civil society extremely important. The article deals with adapting to the constitutive principles of civil society and shows that behind the trend are Relativizing the values and norms is self-destruction the reason. The article focuses on constitutive principium of civil society and suggests that in-built tendency to relativization of values and norms leads to self-destruction of its foundations.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>гражданское общество</kwd><kwd>общество культурного плюрализма</kwd><kwd>ценностная ориентация</kwd><kwd>приоритет права</kwd><kwd>социальные практики</kwd><kwd>легализация</kwd><kwd>легитимация</kwd><kwd>релятивизация норм</kwd><kwd>civil society</kwd><kwd>culturally pluralistic society</kwd><kwd>value system</kwd><kwd>the priority of the right</kwd><kwd>social practices</kwd><kwd>legislation</kwd><kwd>legitimation</kwd><kwd>relativization of norms</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>гражданское общество</kwd><kwd>общество культурного плюрализма</kwd><kwd>ценностная ориентация</kwd><kwd>приоритет права</kwd><kwd>социальные практики</kwd><kwd>легализация</kwd><kwd>легитимация</kwd><kwd>релятивизация норм</kwd><kwd>civil society</kwd><kwd>culturally pluralistic society</kwd><kwd>value system</kwd><kwd>the priority of the right</kwd><kwd>social practices</kwd><kwd>legislation</kwd><kwd>legitimation</kwd><kwd>relativization of norms</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement /></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement /></funding-group></article-meta></front><body /><back><ref-list /></back></article>