Tradition and Rationality

Abstract

Transmission of social heritage has a problem of correlation between tradition and rationality. The content of the tradition is explained as the objectification of "collective memory", subjective in nature. This model of social relations and cultural communication links the objective reality and the subject of socialization. Ontological and cognitive warps in the structure of collective experience affect the results of intellectual activity in modern society. It is concluded that tradition, not identical to traditionalism and conservatism, transforming the facts of the past into values of modernity, regulates social practice and marks mentally conditioned stereotypes of social behavior of the individual.