The Purpose Of Cognizing Society

The people who surviving in the society that must understand the society for adapts the society. Therefore has then had the need of cognizing society. The purpose is the first link of practice and the beginning of practice, similarly is also the beginning of humanity's cognizing activity. So inspects people's cognizing social activity is need to researching the purpose of cognizing society.Cognizing society is different with cognizing nature. The purpose of cognizing society has multiple levels,corresponding the"being""ought""doing",the purpose of cognizing society also has three levels: explain the society,regulate the society,change the society. We found that regardless of explaining the societyregulating the society or changing the society,we can not do without certain intermediaries. It is only through the intermediary that the explain of society can be confirmed by the society (collective) and that regulating the society can set up social norms through the permission of the community, and changing the social reality can negative and change the society of the reasonable and lawful.This intermediary actually is the means of realizing the purpose of cognizing society, and its specific performance is social power. The born of social power is accompanied by the cognizing society,and social power is the intermediary for the born of cognizing society. The purpose of cognizing society is realized with the help of social power,and the social power is constructed and maintained with the help of the social cognition, the two mutually reinforcing and ultimately promote the evolution of the cognizing society and social progress.