Personal Self-actualization Research Articles

Социальные и культурные детерминанты самореализации личности в условиях современного сервиса

In article through the prism of social and cultural approaches to human personality and human activities, authors examine the nature of self-realization of the individual. The authors defend an original theory of the determinationproducing abilities cultural derivatives. On the other hand, the person, as shown in the article is the major determinant of the productive forces of society. The authors of the article rehabilitate in a certain sense the Marxist approach to the relation of individual and society, where the ability of the human is the product of work alienated from the worker; this product can be considered in the context of the categories of “service”, “product of social production” and so on. The article shows the conjugation of the three spectrums of solving the problems of human abilities; they are using the methodology of socio-cultural approach, using the perspective of philosophical anthropology, in the categorical field of psychological discourse. It’s provided by a person who acts simultaneously as an object and as a subject of social relationships, as a result, active life position, a certain strategy of behavior, a tendency to a kind of unique activities have great value towards socialization. The importance of such consideration is connected, on the one hand, with the need of “translating” philosophical problems of psychology and management in the modern language services sector, on the other hand with need to determine conditions for self-realization, and other spiritual factors of human existence in the modern capitalist production. Following consideration of the accompanying considered problem issues (psychological culture, professional development, optimization services and others.); the authors conclude that the social and cultural determination of personality self-actualization creates a dynamic variety of life strategies prejudicing a persons’ ability to realize adequately them in the market in the post-capitalist socio-economic formation.

Personal Self-Actualization in Intensive Group Training, or Why the Adults Need a Non-Professional Education

The adults’ modern education, according to the author, can not be limited by obtaining and developing the professional competences, it primarily incorpo- rates the work on life strategies, goals, meanings and self realization activities. The pa- per reveals the research findings concerning the self-actualization peculiarities of the adults choosing different types of socio-psychological trainings for personal growth and self-realization in all spheres of life. The research is aimed at identifying the distinctive features of people who are ready to undergo the trainings and pay for their self-development. The research goals include studying the character profile of people who accept such educational forms as the opportunity for their potential development. It has being found out that striving for educational opportunities in personal grows is the characteristic feature of people real- izing their quality potential as well as the insufficient level of the cognitive recourse. The obtained results prove the necessity of designing the educational programs promoting the adults’ self-awareness and self-development.

Edge sensing as embodiment

Building on Gendlin’s understanding of the body as an extended system, this paper explores the process of becoming body, or embodying, and how embodying can be consciously accessed in edge sensing and Focusing. It is argued that the sustained practice of edge-sensing the consciously accessible embodying process creates an emergent sense of me as embodying process. Further, it is claimed that embodying entails a complementary process of un-embodying, and that the ongoing process of embodying/un-embodying is a source of freedom. These embodying/un-embodying processes bring aliveness both intrapersonally and interpersonally, and the potential for mutual embodying. Change in psychotherapy comes, not only as insight, but also as a new alive presence in/of the body. It is this potential for shift in embodying that motivates personal self-actualization and the assistive processes of psychotherapy.

Traits of the Self-actualized Personality in the Modern Russian Politicians

The article discusses the possibilities and limitations of the study of such a complex phenomenon as personal self-actualization. A scheme for the analysis of the self-actualizing personality traits in people, whose direct examination is difficult, is presented. The proposed scheme has been tested on example of the study of self-actualizing personality traits in modern Russian politicians (former and current Russian presidents and presidential candidates in the election campaign in 2012).

САМОАКТУАЛИЗАЦИЯ ЛИЧНОСТИ И СУБЪЕКТИВНОЕ БЛАГОПОЛУЧИЕ РОССИЙСКИХ МИГРАНТОВ

The article represents results of empirical research of the interrelation between Russian immigrants' personal self-actualization and subjective well-being. Detailed results based on a sample of Russians who migrated, and Russians who live in Russia are provided. Common and particular interrelations between personal self-actualization and subjective well-being are highlighted. Also the features typical for persons living in Russia, Germany, USA and Spain are considered.

Bill Staines's Bridges and the Art of Meta-Folk

AbstractFolksinger-songwriter Bill Staines came of age at the height of the mid-twentieth-century American folk music revival and has spent the years since then writing and playing music that seems impelled by the conviction that this vanished era's core stylistic premises and clear-eyed optimism remain as alive and available as they were at the revival's peak. Through this exploration of his 1984 album Bridges, I seek to show that Staines accomplishes this fantasy of the revival's continued vitality not, as his commentators frequently suggest, by clinging fast to decades-old stylistic practices but by introducing a dimension of reflexivity into his craft. What comes to matter is not music's political or social meaning but the self-conscious celebration of the idea of music having such a meaning.The article's first section explores Staines's self-mythologizing enfolding of his own persona into Woody Guthrie's in the Guthrie ballad that opens the album. The second section examines Bridges' poetic weaving of music into narratives of social redemption and personal self-actualization. The third section examines Bridges' many moments of diegetic song, which effectively collapse the worlds of Staines's poetic subjects into that of his immediate audience. The last section explores how melodic choices in the traditional song that closes the album have the effect of bringing many of the songs that precede it directly into the fold of traditional music.

Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation.

Engineering Culture grew out of an attempt to take seriously the conceptual and methodological requirements of a cultural perspective on organizations. Briefly, the book is a critical ethnography of a large and successful high-tech corporation lauded in the popular managerial literature for its innovative postbureaucratic “corporate culture.” The corporate culture, the official story went, drove the company’s employees to peaks of corporate performance and personal self-actualization. Academic views of these managerial claims fell, unsurprisingly, into two distinct camps. On the one hand (the upper one, of course) were those who participated in the construction of this grand utopian narrative: numerous texts reinforced, jargonized, and legitimated managerial claims and fed them back to ever-hungry corporate consumers of good words. On the other hand, less popular but no less persistent and no less grand, was a continuing stream of criticism of the corporation. In this view, utopian managerial claims were—...

Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation

Engineering Culture grew out of an attempt to take seriously the conceptual and methodological requirements of a cultural perspective on organizations. Briefly, the book is a critical ethnography of a large and successful high-tech corporation lauded in the popular managerial literature for its innovative postbureaucratic “corporate culture.” The corporate culture, the official story went, drove the company’s employees to peaks of corporate performance and personal self-actualization. Academic views of these managerial claims fell, unsurprisingly, into two distinct camps. On the one hand (the upper one, of course) were those who participated in the construction of this grand utopian narrative: numerous texts reinforced, jargonized, and legitimated managerial claims and fed them back to ever-hungry corporate consumers of good words. On the other hand, less popular but no less persistent and no less grand, was a continuing stream of criticism of the corporation. In this view, utopian managerial claims were—as ever—no more than a disguise for malevolent managerial intentions, now in the form of tyrannical attempts to penetrate and shape employees’ minds and hearts.

Kenneth Beittel on Art Education Research

Kenneth R. Beittel's book Alternatives for Art Education Research [1] is based on the assumption that research into the making of art must move as closely as possible to the stream of consciousness of artists and that this is best done through the agency of 'special participant observers', although they still cannot entirely escape bias. Art is taken to be an 'ultimate' realm of human experience that cannot be subsumed by scientific or religious prescription or inspection. Beittel's goal is understanding, not prediction and control, nor behavioristic, publicly verifiable research of art that 'thingafies' and closes off that which it would study and enhance. He further assumes that the essential conditions for the making of art are: (1) artistic causality (an emphasis on artists as active agents), (2) idiosyncratic meaning (of a unique, imagebound kind that impels the artist to 'live the myth onward' (Jung) toward personal self-actualization (Maslow)) and (3) intentional symbolism (a temporarily useful, opportunistic set of signs that artists use to 'embody' meaning into media.) The main topic to which he courageously addresses himself is the interaction of the unpredictable nature of artistic activity and the concept of 'lawfulness' in research. His alternatives to research on this topic are unique in that they stem from an art education base instead of being borrowed from a naturalistic discipline. His approach shuns 'O-data', that is, the machinations of 'operators' in reductive experiments. Evidence for an 'iconic representational mode' (the 'icon' being a personal symbol, invented or borrowed often inadvertantly by an artist, the identity and usefulness of which the research seeks to determine) is gathered in a special laboratory in which the artist is asked to draw while time-lapse still photographs are taken to record the steps of his work in progress. These are then utilized to facilitate discussions of the drawing process between the observer and the artist. The observer also takes notes on the process, which the artist can evaluate as to their relevance. Beittel calls the notes 'T-data modes', where T stands for 'transducer'. The discussions between the observer and the artist provide 'D-data', where D stands for 'dialogue'. These discussions are recorded on tape and they provide the primary evidence of the artist's stream of consciousness during the drawing process. The next step is for the observer to prepare an interpretation of the discussions. After several observers repeat this procedure, the differences in their interpretations contribute to what Beittel calls the 'Roshomon' effect (I take this to mean the reduction of overall bias