Karpenko S. Essence of mass consciousness in discursive practices of power.

The object is the ratio of discourse and social conditioning of human consciousness. The aim is to develop the concept of mass consciousness as the essence of the content of discursive practices of power. The methods are linguistic analysis, contextual analysis, comparative. Thesis deals with the nature of the mass consciousness as an object of influence discursive practices of power in modern society. Complex analyzes the features of mass consciousness that get reflected in the discourse of power. Shown consideration the specificity of mass consciousness according to logical-symbolic and philosophical and linguistic approaches. Detailed analyze of the effects of discursive practices of domination and submission, a special status in the context of mass human consciousness, meaning out of discourse background practices of power for the state of mass consciousness was done. Application sphere is the training courses.