How the value is born: construction of social reality

Introduction. The article is devoted to the study of the problem of the formation of social reality on the basis of the value self-determination of anindividual. The issue of transforming values into social institutions has been examined in detail. The mechanism of this transformation is revealed through the formation of the intention of consciousness, which is characterized by the freedom of choice of an individual, his meaningful desire to integrate into the society and the discovery of the individual space (inner world) - the external (social space). Materials and methods. The article uses dialectical, structural-functional, program-purpose, historical-retrospective, hermeneutic and axiological methods of studying and theoretical-methodological reconstruction of social reality. On their basis, questions of the genesis of values and their transformation into social institutions that constitute the emergence of a new social reality are examined. Results. The article gives the author’s interpretation of the process of the individual’s discovery of the social, which is presented as a process of transition of the reflexive and instinctive characteristics of human life into the social and moral modes of his being. The author justifies the provision on the formation of the primary social reality on the basis of individual values as prerequisites for its further reconstruction as an actual social reality that involves the coordination of individual and public interests. Polymorphism has been revealed in the notion of the transformation of individual space and individual orientations into personal and, especially, social constructs. Discussion and Conclusions. The article gives estimates of papers in which various aspects of the investigated problem are considered. Contains a comparative analysis of modern theories of constructing social reality (E. Kleinenberg, J. Searle, K. Levi-Strauss, etc.). The conclusion about the necessity of philosophical elaboration of the concept of such a new social reality that would “remove” the main threats (instability, risks and uncertainty) in the life of an individual and society, which is possible on the basis of a value-based rethinking of modern politics, culture and morality, is argued. In this connection, a new worldview paradigm of transition from “constructing social reality” to “social construction of reality” is designated.