The present study seeks to identify the nature of the relationship between social reality and
consciousness from a perspective that we call interactive, and to examine their contribution
to the social character of the other. In particular, consider
ation of the relationship between
reality and consciousness has often taken a unilateral character in the discussions about it,
whether among sociologists in particular, or among the scholars in social sciences in
general, where the focus was on the identification of the pre-existing of consciousness or
the existence.
In so far as the difference in responses has enriched sociology with opinions and theories
to the extent that it has left a profound impact on the point of view of the assessment of
what is the primary and what is marginal in the relationship between consciousness and
social existence. Apart from these unilateral and sharp estimates, the present study attempts
to clarify the relationship between social consciousness and social existence through what
can be called the picture of reality in the minds of social actors as embodied by the reality
of the relationship between values and reality because values constitute an important aspect
of consciousness and, at the same time, directing people's relations and
