Scientifically based goal setting, design and subsequent improvement of existing educational structures, effective conduct of education policy are the fundamental principles of the cognitive and prognostic function.
The term "function", which came from the Latin language, has several meanings: "execution", "commission". Science is a powerful social force dealing with the solution of global problems of human civilization. In modern life, the role of science is steadily increasing, generating and modifying the status of the culture of social consciousness. Scientific activity, art and everyday consciousness are inextricably linked forms of cognitive activity. In scientific theory, there are basic functions, each of which is closely related to the other: epistemological, practical and prognostic. It is noteworthy that the degree and nature of their manifestation depend on the goals, attitudes and conditions in which they are studied.
Functions of science
The task of the epistemological function is reduced to revealing the content of laws, categories, significant cause-and-effect relationshipsprocesses. She studies the nature of the manifestation of these processes, the presence of internal contradictions, as well as ways to overcome them to ensure the progressive development of society.
The epistemological function is the foundation for any scientific discipline. Direct knowledge consists in considering facts, observing and studying the behavioral characteristics of subjects, phenomena typical of them, on the basis of which laws and categories are studied.
The practical function justifies the application of laws necessary to solve problems and implement policies that meet the collective interest. For example, in the economy, a practical function is based on the study of rational forms of economic management, as well as on the application of measures that contribute to the resolution of economic problems with the achievement of an effective result in the development of production entities and the rapid growth of the welfare of the population.
Philosophy
Processes and phenomena, matter and consciousness, man and society - the prognostic function in the context of philosophical discipline is based on making predictions about the forms and directions of development of objects in the future. The theoretical basis for it is the existing system of knowledge about the surrounding reality.
The data possessed by science are fundamental in determining the development of human society. The predictive function of philosophy is to study the socio-cultural phenomenon of science, knowledgeinteractions between nature and society. For example, the study of the phenomenon of humanization in the conditions of the technical revolution: the activity of a modern engineer depersonalizes humanity, bringing with it not only benefits and progress, but also the destruction of nature, the mechanization of society, and the perversion of the spirit. The predictive function of philosophical doctrine is based on the rational-theoretical comprehension of the world, the study of its inherent laws and patterns, attempts to explain and predict their development.
Pedagogy
In pedagogy, the prognostic function has the following character: reasonable foresight of the ways of development of educational realities. Software training, the development of computers and communication tools became the basis for the development of such a branch of science as pedagogical futurology. The predictive function of pedagogy puts forward many theories about the progressive movement of education. For example, children of the next generation will be educated either at home or in specialized centers.
Telecommunications will become the basis for educational activities. The results of pedagogical research are contained in theories, pedagogical systems and technologies. Forecasts of educational figures are presented in the form of reports, articles, books, manuals and training programs.
Economy
In economic theory, the task of the prognostic function is reduced to the prediction of economic processes. Those that contribute to negative and positive changes in economic indicators. Economiccrises, inflation, unemployment, low income - the prevention of market and economic disasters the predictive function of economic knowledge has put on its shoulders.
State and Law
The theory of state and law is impossible without a predictive function. Drawing up forecasts and predictions, putting forward hypotheses, studying the ways of development of state-legal phenomena are of no small importance in the evolution of powers. The predictive function of law and the state has its own structure. This is the process of building and regulating state social relations in the context of law, as well as the study of phenomena characteristic of it, attempts to stabilize the social, political and national situation, and the elimination of contradictions in the forms of government.
The structure of legal consciousness
This point is no less important for understanding the issue under consideration. The prognostic function as a method of modeling socially necessary rules of behavior that regulate social relations is an ideological source of law. But it is carried out through legal consciousness.
The set of mutual connections and actions of the components necessary for the integral development and functioning of legal consciousness is called the structure of legal consciousness. It consists of two elements: scientific (ideology) and ordinary (psychology) legal consciousness.
Under the system of views, presented in the form of a theory, but reflected in the legal phenomena of society, they mean legal ideology or scientific legal consciousness. Thisthe element plays an important role in the activities of state bodies involved in the use of law-making and law-enforcement ideas.
Legal psychology is the study of the sentiments prevailing in social groups or among individuals regarding the law and the law that operate in society. In other words, such an element of the structure of legal consciousness as legal psychology analyzes the attitude of the population to the current legislation, as well as to the approval and implementation of new laws, the legal consolidation of certain social norms.
