Розвиток уявлень щодо поняття "соціальна установка"

Abstract

Стаття присвячена аналізу різних підходів щодо визначення категорії соціальної установки, які склалися в ході історичного розвитку та осмислення цього явища.The article is dedicated to the analysis of the different approaches for defining the category of the social mindset, which have been formed in the process of the historical conceptualization of this phenomenon. It is underlined that the category of the mindset characterizes such psychological state of the personality, which defines his or her readiness to act in the specific situation according to his ir her perception and the specific features of his or her behavior. It is highlighted that the research process of the social mindset topic is commonly divided into three periods. The first period, which lasted from 1918 to 1940, is remarkable by its theoretical discussions about the sense of the category “mindset” and the development of methods for measuring the level of mindset. The second period (1940-1950) is the period of the decline in the mindset research tempo. Such decline is determined by the switching to the group dynamics research process. The third period (the mid 50-s – 60-s) is the period of the fast development of the mindset studies. The author analyses the approaches to the determination of the sense of the category “attitude” which are offered by the inland and foreign authors. The author underlines that the category “social mindset” was used to be understood by domestic authors as the specific state of psyche, which shows the readiness to act and was organized on the basis of the former experience and which performs the guiding and dynamic influence on the human’s behavior towards the social objects. As the result it has been concluded that there are many variants of the definition for the category “social mindset” and all of them are resulted in the such which is formed under the influence of the factors of the objective and subjective form of readiness of the person to act in the specific situation for the purpose of the satisfaction of the personal needs and interests.Статья посвящена анализу разных теоретических подходов относительно определения категории социальной установки, которые сложились на протяжении исторического развития и осмысления этого явления.