SOCIAL CONFLICT AS A COMPANION OF CIVILIZATIONS.

A British historian Arnold Josef Toynbee is one of the most controversial authors among those who tried to explain a society and social processes. His place in the history of ideas about society is disputable, as well as the claim that he was a scientist in the modern sense if the word. Toynbee's theory of civilization cycles, which heavily relies on the Greek-Roman civilization as a model, stays under a very strong influence of the ideas of O. Spengler and of Christianity. In this paper the authors are concentrating on Toynbee's understanding of the place and role of social conflict, hoping that it can, at least a bit, contribute to our comprehension both of social conflict as a phenomenon and the contemporary social conflicts we participate in or we are witnesses of. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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