The emergence of virtual communication technologies, various social networks, and messengers have raised significant questions about the structure of information categorization and the criteria for identifying events in large social groups. Many fields of social sciences and humanities (philology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, political science, pedagogy, etc.) have addressed the issue of identifying events as units of analysis for social processes and the typology of events based on the dialectical contrast between the global and the local. Most authors note the importance of the media’s role in representing situations, the need to distinguish events from other concepts, and the tendency to expand this category in many areas by incorporating additional semantic meanings and blending it with everyday understanding. The dialectical contrast between the global and the local allows for a deeper understanding of events not only in terms of territorial principles but also in relation to the subject of action and influence within the discourse representation of events.
DOI: 10.34823/SGZ.2026.8.262014
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Chuganskaya A. A. Typologies of socially significant events in the humanities: The global-local dichotomy as a basis for studying social processes // Social and humanities knowledge, N 8, 2026, pp. 232–235.