Problems of Personality Development in the Changing World

Abstract

The article deals with the personality development during fast social transformations as a complex socio-psychological problem, which is one of the important challenges for modern psychology. In the domain of interdisciplinary discourse is singled out the socio-psychological perspective of its consideration, is pointed out theoretical and applied models of its research in the context of civilization stabilization in which are presented various ways of finding a connection between social transformations and personal changes. In the article has been proposed the socio-psychological analysis of the mentioned changes with the help of diachronic method of rhythms of sociocultural transformations in their relation to the personality in history. In the article are viewed theoretical principles of studying personality against the background of revolutions and social evolution at the beginning of the twentieth century, for example, by models of the civilizational description, cultural changes which combine the ideas of cyclicality, social progress and crea­tio­nism. Despite the proliferation of the formative and the dialectical methods, is used the advantages of systemic and synergistic methods, because they confirm its commitment to the evolutionary vision and allow more deeply present the picture of the social and socio-psychological changes.

The priority is given not to the description of basic coordinates of social reality and the challenges, which it generates regarding to personality and its response, but to the process of studying social changes by distinguishing between linear (evolutionary and revolutionary) and non-linear types of development. Their combination is considered on an example of psychological and historical analysis of some aspects of the history of the West Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR).On this basis, the field of analysis is defined within two main modes of individual existence – extreme and everyday, which allows on the methodological level to combine the resources of synergetics together with the elements of psychological and historical analysis.