Understanding as the Basis for Social and Communicative Interaction
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29038/2306-3971-2015-02-38-42Keywords:
interaction, social interaction, social and communicative interaction, action, sociology of understandingAbstract
The article is devoted to revealing the essence and the basic characteristics of social and communicative interaction. The role of understanding in the formation of social and communicative interaction is being defined. The conceptualization of the term «interaction» has been performed; the basic approaches to understanding the concepts of «action» and «interaction» in the sociological and socio-philosophical have been discoursed. The concept of interaction has been studied by many scientists in social and philosophical discourse. One of the most famous researches belongs to M.Weber, who proposed to consider the concept of social action in terms of rational expediency, which is not always possible to apply analyzing social and communicative interaction, particularly in the present online space where irrational factors often become very important. The category of understanding has been chosen to comprehend the causes and motives of individuals who interact in online communities. For sociology of understanding rational objective accuracy appears as a particular ideal type regarding the empirical behavior. Considering the «wrong type» of behavior the concept of «significance» becomes important. In this case, the crucial distance between certain «wrong type» of behavior and what is considered «significant» plays a decisive role. It is sated that understanding is the foundation of social and communicative interaction. The concept of understanding, correlating with the notion of importance, is inseparable from the process of meaning development. It is argued that understanding is the process of meaning production, which constructs a certain meaning for participants of social and communicative interaction, depending on the value and importance of certain interactions.
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