Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2012 5 (7)

Authors

Trufanov, Dmitry O.

Contact information

Trufanov, Dmitry O. : Siberian Federal University , 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041 Russia , e-mail:

Keywords

rationality; social rationality; postnonclassical approach; logization; reflexivity

Abstract

This paper observes the problem of definitions of social rationality. The author applies the postnonclassical sociological approach to the analysis of social rationality. The sociological approach is critically necessary insofar as rationality is a social phenomenon, and any rationalizing activity acts as an activity of the social subjects. Postnonclassical approach is being employed in this research in connection with the fact that it claims the dialectical unity of the cognizer and the object of knowledge and thereby enables us to overcome the conflict of existing versions of rationality, absolutizing its epistemological or ontological aspects. This point of view allowed the author to assert that an essential feature of rationality is reflective design (logicization) of objects of reality - the unity of logization as means of cognitive reflection, accessible to person, and logicized item as an object of cognitive reflection. Meanwhile logization is defined as the use of logical tools, regardless of the presence in this application certain logic errors (this feature distinguishes logicized from logical). Guided by these theoretical grounds, the author formulates the definition of social rationality in the broad and narrow senses. In the broad sense, social rationality is a set of reflexive content of social reality, in the narrow sense social rationality is displayed as any reflective act (its process and outcome) of an individual or a group subject of social action, carried out by using verbal means of communication.

Pages

1036-1045

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/2997

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