Functioning of Mentality in Society: Socio-Cultural Hypothesis

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Губанов ◽  
N. Gubanov ◽  
Губанов ◽  
Nikolay Gubanov
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Reproductive Activity ◽  
Integral Characteristic ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Mental Characteristics

Category of mentality has additional heuristic capabilities as compared to traditional categories of the mental life. Firstly, it serves as an integral characteristic of the uniqueness of the man’s mental world, and secondly, gives an understanding of the specific type of perception of the world by the subject, thirdly, it explains the distinct way of subject’s activity – his behavior, communication, performance. Because the mentality determines the mode of activity of a social group or an individual; the human activity orientation and it’s specificity, so the mentality can be interpreted as a core for the group and personal culture, also as a strategic cultural program of the subject. One of the basic clashes of society has the form of a contradiction between the mentality, containing new cultural forms, and the social relations. In the course of the individual cultural creativity development as a response to the multiple challenges of history, new mental characteristics are generated in the mentality of the intellectual elite representatives. They represent innovative programs of human being activity – performance, behavior, communication. The new mental characteristics spread in society and become components of group mentalities. This accrued contradiction between the mass mentality and the old social relations generates a constructive tension; negotiation the tension through the reproductive activity of subjects can establish the more progressive social relations. Old elements of mentality, in turn, inherent social inertia and conservatism. They can obstruct the new social relations establishment. Therefore, mentality has the contradictory nature, embodying the dual opposition of tradition and innovation. In the same time mentality is a social progress stimulating factor, and a factor that holds back excessively large and excessively rapid social changes. There is a difference between the mentality of the creators of innovative cultural meanings and the mentality of the masses. In the mentality of the creators that make up the intelligent elite of the society, the innovational component is more intense than the traditional. In the mentality of the masses is vice versa - the traditional component dominates over the innovational. There are many driving motives of the society development: changes in a way of material production, in the culture in general and in education in particular, in engineering, in science. But the most significant force, apparently, displays the changes in mentality that generate new forms of reproductive activity of the subject in the economic, political, social and mental spheres.

Social epistemology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick F. Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Social Epistemology ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Epistemic Status ◽  
Normative Study ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual

Social epistemology is the conceptual and normative study of the relevance to knowledge of social relations, interests and institutions. It is thus to be distinguished from the sociology of knowledge, which is an empirical study of the contingent social conditions or causes of what is commonly taken to be knowledge. Social epistemology revolves around the question of whether knowledge is to be understood individualistically or socially. Epistemology has traditionally ascribed a secondary status to beliefs indebted to social relations – to testimony, expert authority, consensus, common sense and received wisdom. Such beliefs could attain the status of knowledge, if at all, only by being based on first-hand knowledge – that is, knowledge justified by the experience or reason of the individual knower. Since the work of the common sense Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid in the mid-eighteenth century, epistemologists have from time to time taken seriously the idea that beliefs indebted to social relations have a primary and not merely secondary epistemic status. The bulk of work in social epistemology has, however, been done since Thomas Kuhn depicted scientific revolutions as involving social changes in science. Work on the subject since 1980 has been inspired by the ‘strong programme’ in the sociology of science, by feminist epistemology and by the naturalistic epistemology of W.V. Quine. These influences have inspired epistemologists to rethink the role of social relations – especially testimony – in knowledge. The subject that has emerged may be divided into three branches: the place of social factors in the knowledge possessed by individuals; the organization of individuals’ cognitive labour; and the nature of collective knowledge, including common sense, consensus and common, group, communal and impersonal knowledge.

scholarly journals SOCIOCULTURAL DETERMINANT OF THE SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE PHENOMENON

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Yuriі Boreiko
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Symbolic Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual

The article analyzes the sociocultural basis of constituting the symbolic space, the content of the symbolic violence phenomenon, the cultural and symbolic potential of the toponymics objects. It is established that practices of symbolic violence consist in constructing a system of subjective coordinates by imposing rules, senses, meanings, values that become self-evident. Symbolic space encompasses the collective consciousness of the socio-cultural community and has the ability to form a system of subjective coordinates where the individual's life activity unfolds. The intelligibility of symbolic space is conventionally established, which is provided by the process of socialization. Pursuing the goal of domination, hegemony, coercion, symbolic violence moves the real confrontation into a symbolic environment, directing the influence on the mental structures of the social subject. Giving to senses and meanings a legitimate character is a way to explain and substantiate social relations, their cognitive and normative interpretation. Accumulating the experience of community coexistence throughout its history, habitus is a set of dispositions that motivate an individual to a certain reaction or behavior. Habitus, which generates and structures practices, combines the individual tendency of the actor to act adequately to the situation, the interaction of actors in the community, and the interaction of the community and each of its members with reality. As a historically changing phenomenon, habitus determines the nature of interactions between individuals whose communication skills are consistent with the functioning of social institutions. An important component of the symbolic space and part of the cultural and historical discourse are the objects of toponymics, which explains the constant ideological and political interest in this segment of socio-cultural life. Objects of toponymics act as a marker of ordering social space, a tool for including the subject in socio-spatial landscapes. The renaming of toponyms demonstrates the connection between the social conditions in which it takes place and the reaction of the social relations entity to changes in the toponymic space.

scholarly journals On the question of the functions and tasks of legal custom

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-34
Author(s):  
Marian Bedrii
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Protective Function ◽  
Current State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

The article researches the functions and tasks of legal custom based on historical experience and the current state of legal life.The view represents that law and culture functions are realized through legal custom, as it is an important element of these phenomena.At the same time, it is noted that legal custom is characterized by a separate catalog of functions and tasks that need to be studied. Theregulatory, explanatory, protective, defensive, inflectional, reconstitutive, ideological-educative, identification-communicative, antimonopoly,and legal-resource functions of legal custom are analyzed. The administrative and organizational components of the regulatoryfunction of legal custom are highlighted. The preventive and restrictive components of the protective function of legal custom are cha -racterized. It is substantiated that these functions are inextricably linked with the tasks of legal custom.Based on the analyzed functions, the following tasks of a legal custom are allocated: the legal regulation of social relations; cla -rification of provisions of the legislation, acts of law enforcement, texts of agreements, terms and symbolic actions; legal protection ofpublic goods and values; providing opportunities to protect rights and freedoms; stabilization of the legal system, its protection fromill-considered and risky transformations; reproduction of the acquired legal experience in new conditions; ensuring the flexibility of thelegal system; influence on the worldview of the individual and society in general; determining the affiliation of the subject to a parti -cular community and maintaining communication between its members; prevention of monopoly in the legal system of a normativelegal act or other sources of law; formation of material for the systematization of law.It is argued that legal custom, as a social phenomenon, evolving in the process of history, performed a wide range of functionsthat correlated with its tasks. Not every period, people, or locality is characterized by a full set of analyzed functions and tasks, but itis worth noting the possibility of their implementation by the legal custom in general, as evidenced by past experience and the currentstate of legal relations. The results of the research, on the one hand, complement the understanding of the nature of legal custom, andon the other – prove the feasibility of further use of this source of law in modern legal systems.

Psychopatic Traits in Interpersonal Relation

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (35) ◽  
pp. 9-36
Author(s):  
Wojciech Czajkowski ◽  
Patryk Pokornicki
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Dark Triad ◽  
Interpersonal Relation ◽  
Negative Role ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual

The subject of interest in the presented text is the possible relationship between a number of personality traits of the individual and its functioning in social relation. Dealing with the psychopathic features of personality and their importance in social relations, the authors pay attention to psychopathy, as well as narcissistic features and Machiavellianism in individual’s activity. These three traits since the beginning of the 21st century have aroused vivid interest of researchers and therapists attempting empirical verification of hypotheses in this area. It is also worth indicating. The above-mentioned categories of behavior form the dark triad of personality. Researchers draw our attention to clinical interpretations regarding diagnostic criteria enabling the recognition of psychopathic features and the broader dark triad. This sometimes carry on to referring to the concept of sub-clinical psychopathy that does not meet the diagnostic criteria used in the classification of mental disorders. The authors also try to interpret the negative role of these features in social relations.

Beyond the oversocialized conception of the subject in psychology: Desire, conflict, and the problem of social order

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 768-785
Author(s):  
Suzanne R. Kirschner
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Positioning Theory ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Symbolic Interactionist ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
The Subject

The question of how individual human beings achieve stable and collaborative social relations, given that they also have diverging desires and interests, remains important for any psychology or psychological metatheory concerned with the study of individuals in social life. Yet, many influential sociocultural psychologies have, in effect, denied that question’s validity. Discursive, hermeneutic, relational, and some critical psychologies overemphasize the constitutive force of social interactivity and cultural meanings for individual subjectivity, emotion, and other putative psychological phenomena. Using the case of positioning theory, I argue that sociocultural approaches, while of great value, take those “oversocialized” assumptions too far and do not adequately account for the moral complexities and tragic existential realities of human individual and social life. Those dimensions can be more fully theorized and studied using a cultural psychology that retains cultural–phenomenological and symbolic interactionist elements but also includes a set of broadly psychodynamic assumptions and methods.

Knowledge and Practice in Critical Psychology

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ute Osterkamp
Keyword(s):  
Science Research ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Critical Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Individual

This article outlines the essential characteristics of a psychology from the subject standpoint that starts from the principal unity of self-determination and determining the relations that determine one's own actions. The main research object in subject science understood in this way is the many forms of hindrances and obstacles, both in theory and in practice, that prevent us from realizing this unity. In contrast to standard research, where one attempts to grasp the dependency of the individual agency of others on societal structures and their cultural meanings, psychology from a subject standpoint is about relating to the societability of one's own actions, that is, analysing them to grasp their own real preconditions and implications. Consequently, in such a subject science perspective, the aim is less to gain or disseminate knowledge and more to analyse the many ways in which “critical” knowledge urging change is ignored or modified to make it compatible with one's own actual possibilities to act. As the paper details, such subject science research is not possible from an external standpoint but entails subjecting one's own assumptions and methods to a critical analysis.

scholarly journals On the need to reform the Institution of undesirability of stay (residence) of foreign citizens in Russia in the conditions of digitalization

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Yuliya Viktorovna Paukova
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Automated System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Migration Control ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Advanced Computer ◽  
Stateless Person

The subject of this research is the legislative provisions on undesirability stay (residence) of foreign citizens and stateless persons in Russia, as well as the established law enforcement practice. The object this research is the social relations developed in the process of rendering decisions by the federal executive authorities on undesirability of stay (residence) and their enforcement. The goal of this work consists in formulation of recommendations on reforming the institution of undesirability of stay (residence) of foreign citizens and stateless persons in Russia in the conditions of digitalization of the government actions. The article examines the grounds for making decisions on undesirability of stay (residence) of foreign citizens in Russia, the powers of the departments, and the consequences of decisions made on foreign citizens and stateless persons. Substantiation is made on the need for changes in the grounds for decision-making on undesirability of stay (residence) of foreign citizens in Russia. The author proposes the development and implementation of the “Automated System of Migration Control” using the advanced computer technologies based on the “rating” of a foreign citizen or stateless person. Such system will determine the period for restricting entry with consideration of all circumstances pertaining to the individual and crimes they committed. It is recommended to legislate the possibility of annulment of a decision on undesirability of stay (if the grounds thereof no longer exist) or suspension (if, for example, a stateless person has been issued a “temporary identification document of a stateless person”).

scholarly journals FORMATION OF PHILOSOPHY AS A MEANS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 182-189
Author(s):  
Anna Ivanchuk
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Process Understanding ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Historical Times ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Culture Development

The article considers the problem of the relationship between philosophy and human development. The interrelation of philosophical thought and mental development of a person at different stages of social progress is substantiated. The main philosophical currents are analysed that directly influenced the implementation of the educational process. The article proves that depending on the level of development of scientific knowledge the subject and purpose of philosophy were understood differently, its content acquired one or another direction, influencing in some way on the educational process, understanding its essence, determining the basic means of solving problems of teaching and education personality. Our analysis of the scientific literature testifies to the relevance of the stated problem for thinkers, philosophers, teachers of different historical times. Depending on the level of development of scientific knowledge, its content acquired one or another direction, influencing in a certain way the educational process, understanding its essence, determining the main means of solving problems of teaching and educating the individual. The study of scientific achievements of representatives of different philosophical schools allows not only to state the commonalities and differences of their proposed ideas, but also to trace their relationship and interaction, which, being preserved and supplemented, can be an important factor in solving the problem in modern social development. The article proves that depending on the level of development of scientific knowledge the subject and purpose of philosophy were understood differently, its content acquired one or another direction, influencing in some way on the educational process, understanding its essence, determining the basic means of solving problems of teaching and education personality. Keywords: philosophy, educational process, anthropocentrism, self-development, spiritual culture, development, personality, freedom.

scholarly journals The Internal Examination of Ideology and Politics Education in Colleges and Universities under the Perspective of Social Subject Research Method

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Wang Duanxian
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Ideological And Political Education ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Important Principle ◽  
Communicative Practice ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Moral Construction ◽  
The Masses

Human is the subject of social and historical development process. The essence of human is the sum of social relations, and the masses are the creators of history. This is the basic content of social subject research methods, and also an important principle that must be followed by the subject category in ideology and politics education in colleges and universities. From the perspective of social subject research methods, the internal examination of the thought and politics education activities in colleges and universities should include three basic dimensions: adhering to examine the ideological and political moral construction activities via communicative practice, adhering to the principle of "all members, whole process and all dimensions (three-all principle)" to examine the "macro ideological and political" education concept, and adhering to the examination of the innovation of the ideology and politics education method system in higher education for the promotion of students’ subjectivity.

scholarly journals Legal Principles of Opposition to Separatism in the Modern State

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (29) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Sergiy Mykolaiovych Gusarov ◽  
Olha Zolotar ◽  
Marina Belanuk ◽  
Liudmyla Viktorivna Svyrydova
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Separatist Movements ◽  
The Individual

The objective of this article is to determine the factors that contribute to separatism in different countries of the world, as well as to find those means (forms and methods) of counteraction that would lead to an effective and preferably painless solution to such problems. The subject matter of the analysis in this article is social relations that are associated with counteracting the tendencies of separatism in the modern world, as well as the legal basis of such opposition. The following methods of scientific cognition were used while writing the article: systematic approach, logical, semantic, documentary, comparative and legal method. The urgent nature of the research problem has been noted, since the problem of the emergence of separatist movements is quite real for every country in the world. The definitions of the terms of “opposition to separatism” and “legal basis of opposition to separatism” have been offered. Suggestions in regard to overcome this negative phenomenon in a particular state have been provided. Factors that are the “catalysts” of separatism tendencies have been distinguished and stated in details. The historically recorded separatist movements and methods of overcoming them have been analyzed. The authors have made the conclusion about the individual causes and manifestations of separatism in a particular state. It has been proved that the existence of individual features associated with separatism, complicates to a large extent the creation of unique methods to combat this socio-political phenomenon. The authors have emphasized on the urgent need to improve the regulatory base of Ukraine on combating and preventing separatism, in particular, to develop and implement effective preventive, punitive and restorative mechanisms.

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