title: Individualization and psychologization of modern society as factors of weakening social ties
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metadata.value: Khoroshilov, Dmitry A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-12-20T18:22:57Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-12-20T18:22:57Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.value: Khoroshilov D. A. Individualization and psychologization of modern society as factors of weakening social ties. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2023, vol. 13, issue 4, pp. 447– 461. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu16.2023.401 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu16.2023.401
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44533
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article proves the thesis according to which psychology, as a scientific discipline and
  social practice (in the form of psychotherapy and counseling), penetrating into all spheres
  of everyday life in modern society, is a response to the worldview contradictions of the era
  of modernism. The paradigms of post- and metamodernism that characterize our time can
  rightfully be considered a continuation of the main line of early modernism of the early twentieth
  century, associated with the understanding of modernization (the historical process of
  transition from a traditional and sustainable way of life to social uncertainty and instability).
  Therefore, modernity is also called the era of late modernism. In modern society and culture,
  the responsibility for solving the problem of the stability and variability of life is attributed not
  to collectives or groups, as in previous historical periods, but to individuals. Now, not philosophy
  or anthropology, but psychology as the scientific project of modernism seeks to answer
  the famous Kantian question about what a person is. The mass dissemination of psychological
  knowledge and practice leads to the psychologization of society, that is, to the explanation of
  the surrounding world and life problems only with the help of psychological categories; a person
  fixes on the inner experience and personal self-development, thereby distancing himself
  from unpredictable social events and changes. The psychologization of society enhances its
  individualization. Individualization is seen as a dual phenomenon: on the one hand, it implies
  the most free and active construction of identity and lifestyle, and on the other hand, it carries
  the danger of social atomization and the collapse of solidarity, which can be a prerequisite for
  the formation of totalitarian mass movements. The paradox: individualization and psychologization,
  designed to reduce social uncertainty, increase it, locking a person into his own Self.
  To prevent the negative effects listed above, it is recommended to strengthen psychological
  concepts in scientific and public discourses that emphasize the importance of intersubjective,
  joint construction of the image of a changing world.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was carried out with the support of the Russian Scientific Foundation, project no. 22-
  18-00140 “Dynamic stability of personality in the space of sociocultural uncertainty”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
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 13; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modernity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modernism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social uncertainty
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: psychologization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: psychological society
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: individualization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: singularization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Individualization and psychologization of modern society as factors of weakening social ties
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metadata.value: Article
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