Culture of security in the context of contemporary social philosophy: conceptual field and theoretical foundations
Abstract
The article presents a theoretical analysis of the security culture as a key sociocultural phenomenon of the late modern era. The author consistently argues the thesis about the insufficiency and reductionism of traditional approaches to security, focused on state sovereignty and military-political mechanisms. The article focuses on the idea that in the context of structural uncertainty, hybrid threats, digital transformation and the globalization of risks, security must be rethought as a complex, multidimensional construct formed in the processes of collective meaning-making, communication and everyday practices. The aim of the work is to conceptualize security culture as an autonomous object of socio-philosophical analysis and to develop an integrative theoretical model synthesizing the key provisions of Ulrich Beck's risk society theory, Jürgen Habermas's theory of communicative action and Manuel Castells's philosophy of everyday life. The scientific novelty of the research lies in overcoming the gap between the macro-theoretical analysis of security and the micro-level study of everyday practices, as well as in demonstrating the heuristic potential of interparadigmatic synthesis for constructing a holistic concept of «security culture». As a result of the analysis, a three-level structure of security culture is substantiated, including: 1) risk reflection as society's ability to critically recognize systemic threats and abandon illusions of absolute control; 2) communicative legitimization as a procedural-dialogical process of establishing and recognizing security norms in the public sphere; 3) everyday rationalization as the practical competence of individuals and groups to adaptively construct security in conditions of the network fragmentation of experience. It is concluded that the proposed model allows interpreting the culture of security not as a set of external prescriptions or ideological attitudes, but as a dynamic dispositif (in the Foucauldian sense), in which global processes of risk production, institutional forms of communication and the microphysics of everyday experience are intertwined. Thus, security culture appears as an ontological imperative and a condition for the possibility of sustainable societal development in the context of permanent instability and a multiplicity of threats.