human activities on the development and systematization of knowledge called science, and can be considered as such only if thoroughly tested and substantiated knowledge.
This kind of human activity is aimed at the study and comprehension of the various laws, including the law of life, which include the laws of thought, society and nature.Science is a set of disciplinary knowledge and social institution.
Science begins to study the facts, events, phenomena and their laws, fixation statements, verifiable.
Science involves the process of obtaining a completely new knowledge about the subject (phenomenon, event), and the systematization of knowledge.Also, science is based on a social institution is a special sphere of culture, providing linkages with other forms of social consciousness.
tasks of any science, including the functions of political science include purposeful activity in the production of brand new, thoroughly tested and based knowledge.The knowledge gained through research, different from the everyday (or non-scientific forms of knowledge) is the presence of specific methods, tools and categories of knowledge.
modern science by interacting with other areas of human life, performs certain functions.The social functions of science are as follows:
- cultural and ideological social functions of science emerged during the crisis of feudalism, and developed at the stage of the birth of bourgeois relations, later developed into the capitalist.During this period, the development of public relations function is detected in the area of science world, in the arena of science and theology.
- in the Middle Ages social functions of science consisted in the formation of direct productive force, when theology was trying to win a place in the supreme court, but in barely nascent science of present problems "earthly", the private nature.
- science as a social force increasingly is used to solve problems in different spheres of society.For example, thanks to the discovery of Copernicus Science won the right to determine the formation of a monopoly world, challenging him in theology.This is one of the clearest examples of how the social functions of science by its penetration into the sphere of human activity, showed the first signs of infusion in the social field.
social functions of science constantly changing, historically developed in accordance with the science.It is the development of social functions is one of the base sides of any science.
subject "philosophy of science" is a relatively young discipline of philosophical knowledge, experienced its rise now because of the rapid development of scientific and technical progress.
subject and function of philosophy of science presented different concepts.As a matter of philosophy can be considered the general laws of human activity on the production of scientific knowledge.This process is being studied in a continuous historical development.Philosophy of science refers to the fundamental problems of a different nature: the technical, natural, social, humanitarian and others, as well as find their confirmation in philosophy.
for any science is an important statement of fact regularly as identification of patterns makes it possible to predict and explain phenomena in various spheres of life.Any science is peculiar to the continuity of everyday knowledge of science, common sense criticism or rational thinking, scientific thinking as can occur only on the basis of assumptions that were built in accordance with common sense.
