Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem (Nov 2017)

ROLE OF SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN SOCIO-CULTURAL DETERMINATION OF PERSONAL CONSCIOUSNESS

  • Natal’ja Aleksandrovna Ryzhonina,
  • Marina Arkadevna Lygina

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12731/2077-1770-2017-3-212-224
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 3
pp. 212 – 224

Abstract

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Purpose. The article is devoted to important for contemporary spiritual situation in a society theme of correlation and interaction of individual and social consciousness. The subject of analysis is the impact of social consciousness to the consciousness of the person. The purpose of the article make the interpretation of the interaction of collective and individual minds also searching of the structural elements of social consciousness, determining the consciousness of the person. Methodology. The comparative method, structural analysis method, as well as socio-phenomenological approach and the principle of reducing the individual to the social were taken by the authors for the basis of the work. Results. The results concluded that the authors drawing on socio-phenomenological approach interprets the interaction of personal and social consciousness. The last thing is considered by them through the concept of the social construction of reality, that is, collective action by the production and further objectification and institutionalization of ideas, social norms and values that make up the basis of sociality. Also, the authors identify several elements of the spiritual life of society, influencing the consciousness of individuals, including social psychology, mass culture, group consciousness. Practical implications. The results of the study can be applied in the spheres of culture, education and social policy.

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