Abstract

The article deals with sociocultural peculiarities of conceptions of innovation and modernization. Different models of modernization – westernization, overtaking modernization, organic­innovative modernization, non­organic­mobilization modernization, combining modernization – are showed. Justified that innovative­modernization processes have roots in political, economical, national identity of people. That’s why it takes complementary of explicit (economical, political, social reforms) and implicit (existing, condition of non­alibi in being) levels. Shown that from the conceptual point of view innovation and modernization – are mutual and interchangeable notions. But the sociocultural context is much more complexity. Researched that identifying of innovation and modernization is legitimating in Modern limits as period of becoming and developing of European culture, integrative characteristic of transferring from traditional society to contemporary, included all modern social institutes (state, system of education, industrialism, market, ideology etc.) and also mental installations (diversification of knowledge on natural and humanitarian, value­rational actions). Signed that diversification of innovation and modernization are observing during transferring from Modern to Postmodern with its postutopism, postmetaphysics, posthumanism, critics of onto­theo­teleo­fallus­logos­centrism, and in social sphere – postcapitalism, netocracy, crisis of traditional institutes. Postmodern tendencies in education – appearance of phenomenon such net anti­pedagogics of I. Illich etc. Complexity of innovative processes in contemporary world is due to global transferring processes. Among of them: transferring from capitalism to postcapitalism or neofeudalism – power of transnational corporations or corporacracy. This world demands new knowledge, new methodology and new thesaurus.