Intellectuals and power

The authors argue that in spite global financial crisis, which affected on all spheres of social life, the discourse devoted to the role of intellectuals in society and its relationship with the government is still very widespread. The authors analyze the role of intelligentsia in the increasing social complexity and accelerating social dynamics that involves changing of the social community, in terms of structural and functional features. The rate of social processes in the modern and changing society has led the authors to the treatment allocation of functional features, which constitute the social community of intellectuals. The authors argue that the intelligentsia carries two major functions in society: stabilization of the social system and the function of its critical analysis. And being based on the ideas of Gramsci the authors distinguish two types of intellectuals: the conventional and the organic ones.