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Guseltseva M.S. Personality Strategies in a Situation of Sociocultural Changes: Traditionalists, Modernists, Mixed

Marina S. Guseltseva, Sc.D. (Psychology), Associate professor, Psychological Institute of Russian Academy of Education, Moscow, Russia; bld. 9–4, Mokhovaya str., Moscow, Russia, 125009; Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia; bld. 6, Miusskaya square, Moscow, Russia, 125047; mguseltseva@mail.ru

Sociocultural changes are an important factor for understanding the development of the individual in modern conditions. The socialization of the younger generations is considered in the social sciences as a complex and contradictory process, where different trends are intertwined: general civilizational, associated with the spread of globalization and digitalization; pan-European, setting cultural patterns, forming one or another intellectual trend, carrying technological or social innovations; regional, determined by ways of life in the local spaces of everyday life, characterized by the greatest creativity and diversity. Socio-psychological diversification, normative variety of life trajectories and adaptive strategies of the individual becomes a reaction of the transformation of modernity. In psychology, sociocultural changes can be comprehended at different levels of analysis: as a methodological problem; as features of personality development in the contexts of modernity. In this regard, it is proposed to separate the constructs “integrity of the individual” and “wholeness of the individual”. The first one is considered as a methodological ideal implemented through a transdisciplinary approach, using materials of the social sciences in psychology. The second characterizes the structural and functional qualities of the personality and acquires ambiguity and ambivalence in a situation of change. The dialectical understanding of the processes of modernity, including the description of the development of the individual through antinomies, produces ideas according to which, in complex self-developing systems, stability is based on changes; sustainability needs diversity; civil solidarity rests on personal autonomy, and the quality of social adaptation is largely determined by the internal locus of control, the ability for autonomy and individualized activity of the subject. Current sociocultural changes serve as prerequisites for the diversification, radicalization and harmonization of the adaptive behavior of the individual, represented in the social sciences by three ideal types of life strategies: modernists, traditionalists, mixes (mixed). It is argued that mixed values and behavioral strategies underlie the high adaptive potential of Russian youth, the dynamics of which is determined by the sociocultural context.

 

Key words: methodology, personality, sociocultural changes, transdisciplinary approach, modernity, culture

 

Acknowledgment

The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project 22-18-00140 “Dynamic stability of personality in the space of sociocultural uncertainty”.

 

For citation: Guseltseva, M.S. (2023). Personality Strategies in a Situation of Sociocultural Changes: Traditionalists, Modernists, Mixed. New Psychological Research, No. 1, 729. DOI: 10.51217/npsyresearch_2023_03_01_01

 

Keywords: methodology personality sociocultural changes transdisciplinary approach modernity culture

Received: 06th april 2023

Published: 06th april 2023

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