THE INVISIBLE HANDS OF IGNORANCE: TOWARDS THE THEORY OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF IGNORANCE
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-7227-2021-4-45-52
Abstract
Aim. To analyze and justify the need to develop a positive interpretation of the concept of “ignorance” as a subject of socio-philosophical research of social construction of ignorance and its functions. Methodology. Method of comparative analysis was used in the work. The corpus of philosophical works devoted to the social functions of ignorance were studied. Results. The analysis showed that ignorance can have different forms of manifestation in public life, and can also be an active construction of social processes. That is why handmade ignorance should be mentioned as “positive”: its concept includes not only the lack of knowledge but its conscious protection and concealment from the society. Research implications. The results of the work are necessary for developing the theory of the social construction of ignorance, which in the future can become a new tool for analyzing the problems that arise in the process of establishing and developing the society of knowledge.
About the Author
A. V. Golubinskaya
National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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