The influence of transport networks’ globalization on forming the thinking of transport industry managers

Abstract

Globalization would be impossible without changing the transport infrastructure and turning it into the universal tool for delivery of services and goods. In the information society, the concept of transport has been transforming. Nowadays, transport is not just cars, ships, aircrafts. Transport is also an information architecture that allows us to provide services and give access to financial resources. Obviously, it changes the consciousness of people and the mass consciousness of social groups. This research deals with the philosophical and sociological analysis of the mutual influence of mass culture and mass consciousness in a globalized world. We reveal the main tendencies of the interaction mentioned above at the time of widespread use of information and communications technology. We considered the modern methods of the socio-cultural identity formation process as a factor of social contradictions in society at the beginning of the XXI century. We analyzed the mechanisms of harmonization of the priorities and needs of social groups in the globalized society. We substantiated the idea of the impossibility of eliminating civilizational antagonisms without the implementation of innovative approaches to solving problems of national, religious, and cultural identity.