Scientific journal
Научное обозрение. Педагогические науки
ISSN 2500-3402
ПИ №ФС77-57475

INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENON «SOCIAL INTERACTION»

Kovchina N.V. 1 Ignatova V. V. 1
1 Siberian State Technological University
Social interaction is an interdisciplinary category which has ambiguous understanding in science, but possessing certain, essential characteristics: in philosophy they are a coherence and cause-and-effect nature of mutual actions or influences of subjects; in sociology - a recurrence and causal dependence of influences (actions), made by objects of society on one another, procedurality, coherence of phenomena or facts. This issue is reflected in interpretations of social interaction in other sciences. In sociology and social psychology social interaction of a personality is treated 1) as an exchange of interdependent and mutually influencing actions, information, etc. between subjects in the course of communication and joint activity, 2) as actions (acts), 3) as a process. In pedagogics, under a condition of preservation of distinctions in understanding the essence of social interaction, the maintenance of the considered phenomenon is supplemented with axiological, cognitive, communicative, behavioral and emotive components. On the basis of a scientific review the authors of the article explicate the concept “social interaction” as a process of direct or mediated interconnected and interdependent actions of two and more subjects, directed on the exchange of information, values, experience and on implementation of joint activity. This concept has a cultural connotation. Functions of social interaction from the pedagogical point of view are information and gnostic, valuable and reflexive, regulatory and activity.