INTERPRETATION OF REALITY: MEANING AS A MECHANISM

Abstract

The article deals with principal aspects of interpretation issues in social space, as well as the possibility of setting up meaning filters, which is associated with representation. Representational reality and reality as such are completely different forms. For the finite mind, the reality of the “thing in itself” is not given, it is not accessible to it (I. Kant, C. Meillassoux), therefore consciousness remains to produce forms of representative reality, create meanings, and therefore interpret reality. This position is reflected in the fact that all these mechanisms lead to contextual changes in reality and a revision of the ideological space. The authors point out that contextual and ideological changes in reality are associated with the actors’ role function and appear as a complex mechanism in group, subjective and public perception. Structural modification occurs when the “intermediaries” become “mediators” and change the context (B. Latour). In addition, it is noted that contexts are broader than representation – contextual parameters are “broader” than representational frames. Events placed in a context have their relative independence in relation to the context, but are “linked” or “unlinked” to it with the help of interpretations that are constructed in representations.