Martsinkovskaya T.D. Invisible college of Galina Mikhailovna Andreeva in the framework of the culture of XX century

Currently, in the complex and uncertain social world, various theories are developing to respond to the challenges of the new digital era. It seems that the concept of social cognition by G.M. Andreeva has not lost its relevance and retains its heuristic value today. The purpose of the article is to present a holistic picture of the theory of G.M. Andreeva, which made it a scientific school and the center of an invisible college uniting students and followers of G.M. Andreeva. The methods of the historical-genetic approach, historical hermeneutics and categorical analysis are used. These methods made it possible to reveal the productivity of the concept of psychology of social cognition, its transdisciplinarity and connection with postmodernism, the links and differences with the ideas of W. Eco and J. Piaget. The options for the existence of scientific schools in the natural and humanitarian sciences are shown; the factors that determined the productivity and adequacy of the scientific school of G.M. Andreeva for social psychology in the second half of the twentieth century are highlighted. The features of the new methodology and method of this school are described as well as its connection with the theory of activity of A.N. Leontiev. The principles (activity and integrity) and elements of the system that link social psychology with philosophy and linguistics are highlighted, new content of the concepts of being, sign and meaning is revealed. It is the specificity of the approach to these concepts that made it possible to place the study of social being in the center of the psychology of social cognition, and the development of the concepts of meaning and sense became the basis for studying identity, communication and socialization, the connection of cognitions and emotions. Approaches to the analysis of the interaction of the individual and society are outlined and its connections with the theories of Russian and foreign scientists are revealed. It is concluded that the ideas embedded in the concept of G.M. Andreeva have proved their productivity in the new digital world, helping to build new connections between social and cognitive psychology, revealing new aspects in both humanitarian and natural science studies of man and society. The structure of the developing gestalt determines not only the enormous potential of G.M. Andreeva's psychology of social cognition, but also the fruitfulness of further expansion of her “invisible college”.

Key words: scientific school of G.M. Andreeva, invisible college, transdisciplinarity, postmodernism, theory of activity, sense and significance

For citation: Martsinkovskaya, T.D. (2024). Invisible college of Galina Mikhailovna Andreeva in the framework of the culture of XX century. New Psychological Research, No. 4, 44–61. DOI: 10.51217/npsyresearch_2024_04_04_02