Государственная организация: субъектный социальный «конструкт» или реальный социальный объект?

Abstract

The author criticizes the opinion that “the state organization exists only in the minds of people”. The author be-lieves that the state official is an elementary, indivisible unit of the state. The state official is a formalized social role. The social roles exist objectively, the state official exists objectively, and hence the state organization ex-ists objectively. At the same time, the point of view “to exist objectively” is not an intersubjective construction, otherwise we will come to the anti-realism (the collective solipsism). The author analyzes the following points of view on the nature of social roles: Ralph Linton: “social roles are a transpersonal objective phenomenon”; Tal-cott Parsons: “the social role is a methodological construction”; Berger P. and Lukman T.: “social roles are an institutional phenomenon”; J. Moreno: “social roles exist in the psyche”. The author substantiates the point of view that a state organization is a real social object, and not an intersubjective “social construct”.