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STUDIA SOCIOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2023 | |||||||
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SCIENCE AND SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE OR WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW ABOUT WHAT WE BELIEVE WE KNOW. Authors: VLADIMIR PASTI. |
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Abstract: DOI: 10.2478/subbs-2023-0001 Article history: Received May 2023; Revised September 2023; Accepted September 2023; Available online November 2023; Available print December 2023. pp. 5-24 VIEW PDF FULL PDF Abstract: What is knowledge and how can we analyse it from within social sciences as social knowledge? Our socially driven intuition tells us that knowledge is a special relation that humans have with their surrounding world. Its specificity lies primarily in the fact that it implies a direct interaction with the environment. Another important and interesting characteristic of knowledge is its tendency to replace interactions with reality with interactions between pieces of knowledge produced about that specific reality. Connected to this, regarding the issue of truth, paraphrasing both Einstein and Smith, this article argues that ‘an invisible hand’ of the realities of social phenomena makes it so, that the accepted truths of a certain society are those and only those that are functional for the survival and reproduction of that society. And for this to happen it is a must that the elite designated with the production and the legitimation of ‘the truths’ exists and produces those ‘truths’ that support the ‘general interest’ of that respective society. Most importantly is to understand that the consistency of the legitimated truths with the dominant values of the society imbedded in its social order is far more important that their consistency with the empirical observations of the reality. Keywords: knowledge, truth, ideology, social science |
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