POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE: GENERAL PROPERTIES, BORDERS AND LIMITS

Abstract

The purpose of the article is a comprehensive review of political knowledge as a complex, interconnected system . The study of the political aspects of the functioning of society on a scientific basis is carried out in the framework of political knowledge, cultivated in the framework of one of the social sciences political science. In connection with it, the subject of the article is the essence, properties, boundaries and limits of political knowledge. The purpose of the article is a comprehensive analysis: firstly, of political knowledge as a complex, interconnected system of knowledge; secondly, the subject and the object, the goals and objectives of the activities of political institutions; thirdly, power relations and measures contributing to the preservation of an equilibrium-stable connection of the triad “society state people”. The authors note that the universal attribute of the adaptation of each of the presented elements to reality is political consciousness, which opposes the negative manifestation of mass (everyday) consciousness in relation to the activities of political institutions. The authors make proposals for the formation of political consciousness of citizens within the framework of a political culture designed to withstand political alienation, as well as the crisis in management processes that regulate the life of society. The results of the research described in the article can be applied by state authorities and local self-government in both theoretical and applied aspects of the exercise of power.