METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF THE THEORY OF SOCIALIZATION AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Relevance. The report analyzes the methodological foundations of the study of personality socialization in the heuristic tradition of the Kyiv Philosophical and Psychological School. The laws of human development through socialization based on cultural forms are formulated. Methodology. A comprehensive approach (I. Sikorskyi, G. Chelpanov), which establishes the methods of metaphysics, theory of knowledge and logic in the theoretical arsenal of psychological science. Phenomenological approach (E. Husserl, G. Shpet), which considers the category of social existence in the trinity of individual, collective and corporate consciousness, and also uses the categories of form and content, phenomenon, meaning and sense, image and understanding as its interpretation based on one's own experience as central in the work of cognitive actions of human consciousness. Results. The use of a phenomenological approach allows us to assert that personality development appears as an active process that is carried out through the appropriation and transformation of cultural forms by a person as a subject of socialization and the formation of his own expanded identity based on them. The main mechanism of the conscious development of the personality in culture involves the following processes: 1) experiencing the significance of the new and its acceptance as a cultural form (emotional component); 2) reproduction as an interpretation of the new form in the categories of one's own experience (rational-creative component); 3) use of the understood content as a practical test of its ability (cognitive component); 4) the person's expansion of the borders of the Self or his identity through awareness of a new cultural form as part of his own experience (self-reflective meaningful component).