How Social Groups Knowledge Is Possible

The research on epistemology has always been the emphasis and hotspot of philosophy research.However,in the study of social epistemology,there are still some problems need to be studied whether the social group can become the subject of knowledge in the traditional epistemological sense.How is social group knowledge possible?In view of this,we pays research perspectives on the social group knowledge,as the areas that have not yet been draw attention.Mainly discussed about how the social group knowledge be possible.Firstly,the research status at home and abroad is reviewed.Then,discuss and define the concept of social group cognition.Defined the concept of Subject,Subjectivity,Social group,Social group subject and Social group subjectivity.The understanding and basic characteristics of social group are explained.Then,the author explores the cognitive ability structure of social groups around the question of how the social group knows.This paper discusses social group's cognition initiative from two aspects as activity carriers and excitation driving system of social group cognition initiative.From the social group's thinking ability,emotion-willpower and experience-knowledge ability,it provides evidence for the social group's cognitive ability structure.Social group cognition initiative provides the inner potential for social group cognition formation,social group cognition ability makes social group cognition initiative come into reality.Find the implementations to the social group cognition formation from social practice and social communication,Meanwhile,it discusses the language and symbol tools,and explores the intermediary for the formation of social group knowledge.These two are the important guarantee for the formation of social group cognition,and provide the possibility for the formation of social group.The article finally discusses the way of formation of social group cognition.On the basis of probing into the relationship between social group subject and individual subject,the formation process of social group cognition is analyzed.The formation of social group cognition is a dynamic process,which includes two key links:social groups of individualization and individual cognition of social group,and these two links are the process of reciprocating,promoting and promoting each other,thus it constitutes the development path of social group cognition.