Information Society and Globalization: Problems of Identification

Abstract

The article considers one of the aspects of the most important sociological and political problem related to periodization and structuring of society. The article analyzes the issue on the criteria of marking out the information society and its correlation with the notion of the global society. Specific attention is paid to the positions of Antony Giddens and Frank Webster on the absolutely new type of the society and its essential characteristics. A number of contradictions in the theories of the information society of those authors are identified. The “individuation” and “individuality” concepts introduced by Antony Giddens and its argumentation for the existence of global processes are analyzed.