THE STUDY OF SOCIALIZATION TRENDS WITH THE HELP OF THE DIACHRONIC APPROACH

Abstract

The article studies various socialization trends in the Russian society and the use of the diachronic approach in the study of socialization. It presents a description and the idea of the main socialization trends and studies the reason why they appeared. A number of methodologies and techniques was used to detect the most popular trends and values in teenage, youth and young adult social environment, which are: 1 - social success and self-presentation (the study of the teenagers’ ideas of social success (n=40) has shown that like adults teenagers search the information space for successful models of self-presentation, which could lead to good social standing in the future); 2 - professional success (the study of the views of psychology students on their future career (n=51) showed the demand for successful young professionals existing in the society and possible solutions to the controversial problems and difficulties of present-day Russian society); 3 - the choice of the sphere of self-fulfillment (the author presents comparative data on family values among the sampling of students and young workers (n=56), studies the trends of self-fulfillment among the youth in various aspects of life and discovers that family is only viewed as one of the numerous opportunities and is less important than successful career). The author concludes that socialization is inseparable from the person’s social activity, personal identity and self-fulfillment in the society. The results of the study can be of practical use for psychological consultants and for devising socialization programmes. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2013-9-60

Keywords

• personality
• personal identity
• socialization trends