SCANDAL AS A SPECIAL COMPONENT OF SOCIOCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND AN OBJECT OF INFORMATIONAL ATTENTION OF MASS MEDIA
The article contains the materials of a comprehensive study of a scandal as a social phenomenon, where it is viewed from the perspective of sociology, philosophy, political science and conflictology. Another feature of the article is that this publication solely considers the positive and constructive characteristics of a scandal, but its negative and destructive impact on the social situation is also taken into account. The author suggests the typology of scandals : organized by the authorities - consciously or not; organized by all the participants in order to attract attention to a particular event; scandals, arising spontaneously, regardless of the will of its participants; organized by the third, "shadow" party; organized by one of the participants. Such a classification analysis significantly raises the level of methodological studies of this phenomenon