In the twentieth century, philosophy gradually shifted from the notion of structure to that of process in its understanding of society. This shift is visible in all areas of philosophy and in its internal demarcation. But it has infl uenced social science as well, which emancipated from philosophy and is now compelled to address philosophical and methodological questions itself. There have arisen problems of relation between sociology and history, macro-social and microsocial approaches, between social adaptation and social constructivism. In this article, we shall focus only on one aspect of this set of problems, namely, how in this new logic of social process the understanding of discrete and continual being of people is changed and how the interplay of their individuality and interdependency determine constant fl ow of social being.