Adaptation of a person to the processes of modernization and transition to democracy

The article deals with correlating the processes of person's adaptation to social transformations in modernizing society and formation of democratic forms of power exercise. It is shown that a 'modular person' with its universality, communicativeness and ability to choose is an anthropological precondition for transition to democracy. Stages of person's adaptation to social innovations, as well as the content and sense of democracy as a form of power exercise and mechanism of its functioning are described.