title: “Life space” in the context of psychology of everyday life: To the 130th anniversary of Kurt Lewin
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metadata.value: Guseltseva, Marina S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-04-20T18:56:38Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-04-20T18:56:38Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.value: Guseltseva M. S. “Life space” in the context of psychology of everyday life: To the 130th anniversary of Kurt Lewin. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2021, vol. 11, issue 1, pp. 8–23.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu16.2021.101
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/28077
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metadata.value: The psychology of everyday life is one of the actively developing areas of modern Russian
  psychology. The leading theoretical and methodological sources of its development are history,
  anthropology and sociology of everyday life at the general scientific level of knowledge.
  Sources at the specific scientific level are the psychopathology of everyday life by Sigmund Freud, the field theory of Kurt Lewin, and the psychological concept of Hans Thomae. The
  demand for the ideas of Lewin is determined today by transformations of modernity, bringing
  to the fore the issues of socio-cultural dynamics and polymotivation of an individual,
  the clash of values and the subject’s conscious choice of a life path, formation of identity in
  changing life situations, and diversity of lifestyles in a complicated society. Everyday life is
  multi-layered, variegated, and heterogeneous. It presents the dynamics of the visible and invisible,
  real and surreal, modern and archaic. To detect gradual and imperceptible changes, it is
  often necessary to change the methodological toolkit. Lewin’s construct of “life space” in the
  context of the psychology of everyday life allows one to configure various aspects of human
  development in a situation of sociocultural transformations where social space can be both
  supportive and suppressive, and the spheres of private and public, personal and professional,
  mix. This results in a loss of normative boundaries. Cultural-psychological time in a common
  geographic space flows differently for people and communities, which not only creates risks
  of potential conflicts by drawing fault lines in the social fabric, but also poses the problem of
  a description language capable of combining nomothetic (revealing trends and patterns) and
  idiographic (directed analysis of unique cases) discourses. Lewin solved similar methodological
  and socio-political problems. It seems that his approach is very productive for the diagnosis
  and treatment of cultural and psychological trauma in Russian society. In the article, it is
  emphasized that the strategy of Lewin’s “action research” is close to the social constructivism
  of the Russian intellectual tradition, which makes it possible to comprehend the work of a
  psychologist as a solution to the problems of humanizing society and the education system.
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metadata.value: The study was
  supported by a grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project 20-013-00075-A “A person in
  everyday life: psychological phenomenology and patterns”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Psychology;Volume 11; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: life space
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: psychology of everyday life
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: subject
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: transformations of modernity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: methodology
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “Life space” in the context of psychology of everyday life: To the 130th anniversary of Kurt Lewin
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metadata.value: Article
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