Social reality as the object of scientific knowledge
https://doi.org/10.29235/2524-2369-2020-65-3-263-269
Abstract
The concept of social reality and the problems associated with its scientific knowledge are considered. Author considers three aspects of the meaning and significance of this concept to explicate it. The article analyzes the objective and subjective reasons that determine the theoretical and methodological conservatism of social and humanitarian sciences which is expressed in the ontologization of knowledge and the rejection of theoretical pluralism of scientific research. The article substantiates the basic principles of studying social reality in modern socio-humanitarian science which open up new perspectives of knowledge and transformation of the social world.
About the Author
R. A. Smirnova
Institute of Economiсs of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Belarus
Belarus
Rozaliya A. Smirnova – D. Sc. (Philos.), Associate Professor, Chief Scientific Researcher.
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