The phenomena of this world can be observed from the outside, and their cash property - identified in terms of the paradigm, and it will be precisely those properties that are relevant to the purpose of cash investigating these phenomena specialist. In this - are inherent in the natural sciences the methodological procedure. The formation of concepts, verifying the theory of causal explanation in any of the natural sciences must be completed by direct assignment to the determined manner described above the external properties of an object.
In contrast, the social world - a world of subjective rather than objective world. He is not a reality sui generis, separate from the people that make a real "structure" of this world. On the contrary, the social world - this is an existential product of human activity. Through these activities, it is saved and changed. Because the social world is interpreted subjectively constituted by actors, he external studied as existing outside and independently of them, that is, acquires a degree of objective fact city.
That is, individuals in the process of comprehension of the world (that is, explaining, defining, perceiving it) externalize and objectifies it, using all available means to express comprehend. The first and primary means, of course, a natural language. Language provides categories for the interpretation of the phenomena of the social world. Because of this it is objectified in the language of the world and themselves externalize for its carriers. Sociology, therefore, requires a theory of language for the analysis of social values.
Of course, the acquisition of the social world properties of factuality that is the result of traditional methods used by individuals to understand it, does the social world the world of objects similar to the natural world. The natural world does not depend on acceptance or rejection of man's existence, even if the latter is analyzed in terms of its structure of values, which is not intrinsic to it by its very nature. On the contrary, this social world inevitably ceases to exist if he refused to recognize the human, because outside of the recognition he has no property of existence. In this sense, society is really (has the objective facticity), because its members define it as a real and refer to it as a reality. Social facts are the product of traditionally practiced by members of the public methods of understanding and comprehension of the social world, and they are constantly reproduced and stored by the course of social interaction. |