Bechvaia D. - Actual Issues of Social Consciousness. Tbilisi: TSU - 1990 - 307 p. - Bibl. 107. in Georgian.
The monograph consists of the introduction, four chapters and conclusion.
The first chapter: "For the history of social consciousness" deals with transcendental apperception of Kant or the notion of consciousness at large. It becomes apparent that the notions united by transcendental consciousness have universal significance, since it, as the major and necessary regularity of human consciousness acts similarly in the consciousness of every empiric subject and have one and the same significance. According to the author the generality of consciousness is expressed in Hegel's ideas. He considers that the most precious in the idea is its super perception and stability, called by him "the abstract universality". Trend of establishing and progress of social consciousness is continued in the ideas of young Hegelians and ends by the theory of public consciousness of Marx.
The second chapter "Categories of social being and social consciousness" shows that the common between being, at large and social being - is being or existence. Hence, the subjective understanding of a being according to which being is that never existed and will never exist, but exists refers to the objective nature of laws and logic of social being. As to the notion of social consciousness, the author considers that it is a live formation, which forms itself as ideal being and acquires objective significance. Thus, forms of "objective thinking" (sense, objective significance, symbols) imprinted in consciousness represent the important contents of social consciousness. Structural elements of social consciousness possess definite independence, that is, they neither lose nor acquire anything.
The third chapter "Social consciousness levels" deals with the analysis of the specificity of public opinion and concludes that: elements of theoretical as well as everyday consciousness are united in the public opinion and therefore it does not belong to any level. According to the author, namely thanks to it, public opinion is the specific state of the consciousness.
In the fourth chapter "The individual, values, social consciousness" the author, on the grounds of historicalphilosophical data confirms that the notion of a value should possess both empirical and general universal significance. Empiric significance of a value is expressed in the individual and momentary, that is temporary, but the value, as general, ideal (essence, ideal, significance, portent forms of social consciousness) should be expressed both in super-individual and super-time. Thus, we deal with the low level of the value generality when we have maximum individuality and minimum sociality, while at the highest stage of the value we should have maximum sociality and minimum individuality.