A new conceptual approach to understanding the concept abstinence in the framework of the theory of dynamic information systems

It happens that a scientific or social problem has not been solved for several decades. And at a certain stage, there is a need to find out the presence of a system error that set the wrong direction. The analysis of the activity of the anti-alcohol movement allows us to draw an unambiguous conclusion that the direction was taken to fight alcohol and alcoholism. Abstinence used to be considered only as the absence of intoxication. Therefore, the concept of control and prevention was built, which did not provide serious achievements in this area. After all, there is still no unambiguous interpretation of the concept «abstinence». The article is devoted to the analysis of the phenomenon of abstinence, which is carried out from interdisciplinary positions. The purpose of this article is to form the conceptual apparatus of the subject area of abstinance on the basis of its essential aspects, which makes it possible to obtain a description of the object of research with sufficient completeness and consistency. The methodological apparatus used is the analysis of scientific and methodological literature, the theory of dynamic information systems, the mutation method. The principle of triadicity, developed in this theory, finds application in building an internally connected system of concepts of the theory of abstinence, which is productive in theoretical and applied aspects. As a result of the study, a system of categories was obtained that provide a complete and consistent description of the subject area of abstinence; the basic characteristics of abstinence were identified; the interrelations between the categories deciphering the concept of «abstinence» are sorted out, and on their basis the synthesized categories forming the conceptual apparatus of the subject area of the phenomenon under study are identified and defined. Thus, the conceptual apparatus of the subject area of abstinence gives a systematic idea of the phenomenon under consideration and outlines the direction for further qualitative research of this phenomenon.