SOME PECULIARITIES OF THE SCIENCE EXISTENCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
G. A. Shulugina
Saransk
Keywords: contemporary society, science, science as a social institution, traditional science, technologically oriented science, information, knowledge, knowledge as a commodity, digitalization of knowledge, education, self-education, personality
Abstract
The aim of the article is to analyze the peculiarities of the science functioning in the conditions of scientification of the society. The author considers the positions of science in the contemporary society, defines new trends in the development of the social institution of science, and traces the changes in the character of scientific activity and its structural components. In the article the author investigates and compares the foundations of cognitive activity, the role of subject and subjectivity in traditionally and technologically oriented science, and points out to the intensification of technical and informational components of science, which leads to the emergence of fundamentally new conditions of functioning and obtaining the scientific knowledge and influences the educational process. The article justifies the necessity of the proper philosophical and pedagogical reflection on the new conditions of functioning and obtaining the scientific knowledge which exert crucial influence on social and cultural dimensions of human development as well as on individual characteristics of the person.
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