MODERATE RATIONALITY
MODERATE RATIONALITY

Summary/Abstract: The present approach intends to explore, analyze and propose fundamental research approaches and hypotheses in the field of psychosociology, namely in the research of social change and its consequences at the individual human level. By researching the bibliography related to the consequences of major social developments (the pre-modernity of community solids, the modernity of rational social solids and the postmodernity of social dynamics) and of the paradigm shifts in the field of socio-human sciences, by analyzing the theories of social change and the transition from institutionalist, structuralist definitions of social facts, to interactionist, processual, fluid ones, it is possible to arrive at the formulation of at least one hypothesis of the type of modeled and socially limited reason in postmodernity. The dimensions and instances of this shaping are the education system, consumer culture, and entertainment culture. The analysis of the aims and results of the education systems, the ability of the entertainment culture to extract the human person from the confrontation with superior models of life or action, the consumerist skills that influence and define more and more of the mental operations of contemporary man – support, at a theoretical level, the possibility of defining a new style of human reason. This – proposed to be labelled as limited or moderate reason – is meant to be sufficiently awake to maintain the functioning of rational social systems, yet passive enough not to see their limits and defects.

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