Social complementary dyads: historical trends of evolution

Abstract

Subject of research: "social complementary dyads" as a socio-psychological phenomenon. The object is social groups as socio-psychological phenomena, the subject is small social groups (microgroups) in the processes of their historical evolution.
 Methods of research: historical-theoretical, analysis of the empirical studies on social groups subjects interactions. The phenomenon of the dyad as one of the forms of social groups is discussed.
 Main results of research: a typology of dyads has been proposed: 1) complementary social dyads (SDS); 2) supporting social structures; 3) professional dyads (complex groups); 4) professional creative (creative dyads); 5) related; 6) spontaneous; 7) destructive (parasitic, exploitative); 8) antisocial. In view of the historical trends in the increase in the types of dyads and their varieties, it is believed that in the field of education the most urgent problem is the first type of dyads complementary social dyads (SDS), represented by such combinations as "educator educated", "teacher student", "teacher student, etc. Open questions are singled out (study in the paradigm of individual rather than joint activity; binarity of group classifications; unresolved issues of the lower and upper limits of the generation and functioning of groups; evolution of the subjects of the dyad, etc.); promising aspects of further research are discussed (the problem of resources, the individuality and complementarity of the qualities of interacting subjects, the possibility of directed formation and control of the evolution of dyads, etc.).