MODELS OF SOCIETY OF KNOWLEDGE IN MODERN PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE

The article considers the formation of the concept of society of knowledge and determination of its socio-philosophi-cal models. The author pays attention to the preconditions of transition from the concept of post-industrial societies to the new forms of understanding the role of information technologies in the social development. Society of knowledge represents the concept that describes the happening changes within various theoretical models. The scientistic model considers the society of knowledge as a synonym of post-industrial society. The administrative model allocates society of knowledge as a certain stage of post-industrial society. The capitalist model, which opposes society of knowledge to post-industrial society, has undoubted methodological potential, focusing attention on preservation of class contradictions and formation of new forms of social inequality. According to capitalist model, modern society is forming a specific form of capitalism - cognitive capitalism. It is characterized not by leveling, but by strengthening of class contradictions, the source of which is not the difference in the level of income, but inequality in access to information.

society of knowledge, post-industrial society, cognitive capitalism, knowledge, information, human capital, alienation