Social ontology in the paradigm of undecidability

In contemporary social theory, the principle of analytical dualism as the distinction between action and structure is generally accepted. This principle reflects the key issue of social ontology: relationship between man and society. It also allows us to explain operational autonomy of human from the social system. N. Luhmann is one of the most successful among those who defends mutual autonomy of man and society. His approach explains the functionality of social systems, meanwhile it cannot point us the source of their development. The author of this paper recognizes heuristics of Luhmann's approach, but at the same time considers mutual autonomy of man and society as an antinomy. The disadvantage of the existing approaches to the knowledge of the social reality is the lack of a clear understanding that the culture bears mediating role in relations between individuals and society. It is the antinomy of cultural form that determines insoluble contradiction of the mentioned relationship. Mediation antinomy lies in the fact that the cultural form appears to be a framework for selfdescription both for a person and for a social system. Cultural form provides a person with an access or "connection” to a society as a complex system of rules, regulations and instructions.