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Space-time relativism as a model of social structures

This text is a groundbreaking attempt to transfer the paradigms of relativistic physics to the social sciences. The author argues that adopting the tenets of Einstein's theory requires rejecting the intuitive belief in the existence of universal time and a common scene of events. Instead, social structures are analyzed as frames of reference in which the coordination of actions depends on the relative perspectives of observers. Through an interpretation of Minkowski's spacetime and paradoxes such as time dilation and the twin paradox, the article reveals the dynamics of modernization and asymmetry in political systems. Here, the speed of light becomes a metaphor for the limit of causality, defining the framework of ethics and truth in a globalized society. This is a profound reflection on how changing the physical image of the world affects the foundations of sociology.

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