scholarly journals Digital socialization in the cultural-historical paradigm: a changing child in a changing world

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.U. Soldatova
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
External World ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Modern Psychology ◽  
Integrative Concept ◽  
Analysis Of Social Networks ◽  
Changing World

The paper presents the methodology, methods and results of empirical research (2010—2018) of a social situation of development of the digital generation. The digital childhood and digital socialization as social and psychological phenomena are conceptualized in the optics of the cultural-historical paradigm. Modern methods of the analysis of digital reality are considered: the meta-analytical and longitude approaches working with big data, experimental designs on small samplings, the analysis of social networks and some other. The author offers the integrative concept for studying of phenomenology of the digital childhood and socialization (features of cognitive and personal development, relationship with the external world, social and cultural practices). The final conclusion — modern psychology needs the transdisciplinary association of various methodological strategies which will be adequate to requirements of the rapidly changing world and a new social situation of development of children and teenagers.

PECULIARITIES OF MANIFESTATION OF MEANING DISSONANCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Abakumova I.V. ◽  
Grishina A.V. ◽  
Godunov M.V.
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
External World ◽  
Personal Meaning ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Common Mean ◽  
Personal Meanings ◽  
Modern Psychology ◽  
Meaning Systems ◽  
The Subject

Modern psychology considers meaning regulation, as an integral mechanism of personal development. A system of personal meanings develops in the processes of under-standing reality. Due to their polymodality personal meanings cannot be good or bad, but they are not the same. When confronted with unknown situations, the unevenness of the emerging personal meanings can lead to match or mismatch with the existing system of mean-ings. Coincidence, as agreement with a new fact, means meaning consonance. Mismatch, as a mismatch between new and existing information, means meaning disso-nance, as a kind of cognitive dissonance. An analysis of modern psychological literature shows that there are two main plans for the action of meaning dissonances: the dissonance of individual meanings in the implementation of real interactions and the dissonance of common mean-ings during the translation of interpersonal meaning formations. It is proposed to consider that meaning ac-quires a personal coloring due to the processes of both consonance and dissonance positioning of meaning con-structs in the meaning sphere of the subject. The revealed dichotomy of the meaning formation processes shows the possibility of manifestation of meanings bipolarity, which is revealed in the process of transition from the internal to the external world and in collisions with oth-er meaning systems. Then it can be assumed that the ef-fect of meaning dissonance manifests itself in two ways: firstly, in terms of real interactions as a discord of indi-vidual meanings, and secondly, in terms of translation of interpersonal meaning constructs as a dissonance of common meanings. In the course of such an external for-mation, meaning becomes already a personal meaning in the consciousness of a particular person.

scholarly journals Physical Activity and Sports—Real Health Benefits: A Review with Insight into the Public Health of Sweden

Sports ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christer Malm ◽  
Johan Jakobsson ◽  
Andreas Isaksson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
Average Energy ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Psychosocial Health ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Positive Effects

Positive effects from sports are achieved primarily through physical activity, but secondary effects bring health benefits such as psychosocial and personal development and less alcohol consumption. Negative effects, such as the risk of failure, injuries, eating disorders, and burnout, are also apparent. Because physical activity is increasingly conducted in an organized manner, sport’s role in society has become increasingly important over the years, not only for the individual but also for public health. In this paper, we intend to describe sport’s physiological and psychosocial health benefits, stemming both from physical activity and from sport participation per se. This narrative review summarizes research and presents health-related data from Swedish authorities. It is discussed that our daily lives are becoming less physically active, while organized exercise and training increases. Average energy intake is increasing, creating an energy surplus, and thus, we are seeing an increasing number of people who are overweight, which is a strong contributor to health problems. Physical activity and exercise have significant positive effects in preventing or alleviating mental illness, including depressive symptoms and anxiety- or stress-related disease. In conclusion, sports can be evolving, if personal capacities, social situation, and biological and psychological maturation are taken into account. Evidence suggests a dose–response relationship such that being active, even to a modest level, is superior to being inactive or sedentary. Recommendations for healthy sports are summarized.

scholarly journals Literacy, Identity and Gender: A Case Study of Love Letter Writing Practices from Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 288
Author(s):  
Fatima Zafar Baig ◽  
Naveed Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Literacy Practice ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
Love Letter ◽  
Love Letters

This study aims to explore the identity (ies) and ideology (ies) embedded in the love letter writing practices of the people particularly in Pakistan. It brings forth the established social and cultural practices and thoughts of the letter writers from gender perspective. This study investigates the ways in which gender identity is enacted within the language of love letters. Being a significant social literacy practice, the writing of a letter is rooted in a particular social situation. Like all other types of literacy objects and events, the activity advances its meaning and significance from being situated and positioned in cultural beliefs, values, and practices. A case study of the young Pakistani couple has been conducted in this regard where the language used by couple in their love letters is analyzed from ideological perspective. The data are comprised of the love letters which are analyzed qualitatively. Street’s Ideological Model has been employed for qualitative analysis. The research finds out that the ways in which people communicate are constrained by the structures and forces of those social institutions within which they live and function. It also highlights the substantial role of language in the constructions and representations of social and cultural beliefs and values.

Deceitful Media

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Natale
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
External World ◽  
Human Computer Interactions ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
Modern Psychology

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as something extraordinary, a dream—or a nightmare—that awakens metaphysical questions on human life. Yet far from a distant technology of the future, the true power of AI lies in its subtle revolution of ordinary life. From voice assistants like Siri to natural language processors, AI technologies use cultural biases and modern psychology to fit specific characteristics of how users perceive and navigate the external world, thereby projecting the illusion of intelligence. Integrating media studies, science and technology studies, and social psychology, Deceitful Media examines the rise of artificial intelligence throughout history and exposes the very human fallacies behind this technology. Focusing specifically on communicative AIs, Natale argues that what we call “AI” is not a form of intelligence but rather a reflection of the human user. Using the term “banal deception,” he reveals that deception forms the basis of all human-computer interactions rooted in AI technologies, as technologies like voice assistants utilize the dynamics of projection and stereotyping as a means for aligning with our existing habits and social conventions. By exploiting the human instinct to connect, AI reveals our collective vulnerabilities to deception, showing that what machines are primarily changing is not other technology but ourselves as humans.
Deceitful Media illustrates how AI has continued a tradition of technologies that mobilize our liability to deception and shows that only by better understanding our vulnerabilities to deception can we become more sophisticated consumers of interactive media.

scholarly journals The organization model of socio-cultural practices of youth enrichment programs (as exemplified by a student ball)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-372
Author(s):  
Maxim V. Ivanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Enrichment Programs ◽  
Organization Model ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Working Together ◽  
History Of ◽  
Enrichment Program

The article presents the results of the theoretical analysis of such phenomena as “socio-cultural practices”, “enrichment program”. The research determines their role in students’ personal development. The contemporary social position of a student calls for a new pedagogical approach, and therefore requires innovative or retro-innovative approaches. The author develops a socio-cultural practice of the youth enrichment program merging the ball and the role-play. Thus, the research aim is to develop an organization model of socio-cultural practices of youth enrichment programs (as exemplified by a ball) in order to enable students’ personal development. The study reveals characteristic pedagogical features of the socio-cultural practices of youth enrichment programs. Using the example of a student ball, the article shows how through the study of the history of dance and etiquette, students immerse themselves in the cultural environment, which will contribute to the development of patriotism, diligence and curiosity. Team work on concert acts contributes to the formation and strengthening of student partnership. Discussions about the nature of politeness promote kindness, empathy, honesty, and courtesy in student relationships. Students also develop non-standard thinking. Working together in the youth enrichment program, students learn to be hard-working and creative. Part of the enriching experience of this socio-cultural practice is secured in the non-standard situation that goes beyond students’ usual everyday life. The practical application of the research results makes it possible to use the proposed model to develop socio-cultural practices of youth enrichment programs aimed at students’ personal development.

scholarly journals The Concept, Essence and Modern Function of Finance

Financial law ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Evgenia V. Vaymer ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Control Function ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
The State ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Regulatory Function ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Significant Information ◽  
Business Entities

The article examines the modern purpose of finance through their functions in accordance with the law and the strategic policy of the state, including in emergency situations. According to the author, the purpose of finance is manifested in the distribution, control, regulatory, informational and stabilization function of finance. The distribution function of finance is fundamental. The state accumulates funds in public funds in order to subsequently distribute them according to public needs. In modern conditions, there is a complication of the control function of finance, its important component is the control over the implementation of financial transactions carried out using digital technologies and technical means. In this regard, the information function of finance is now very relevant, since finance is an important source of financially significant information when making management decisions. The regulatory function of finance is associated with government intervention in the allocation of government spending, in the implementation of preferential taxation, in the provision of subsidies, or vice versa, in increasing tax pressure and other restrictions. The stabilization function of finance is that the main task of the state should be the formation of a stable political, economic and social situation in the country, providing all business entities with a real opportunity to carry out legitimate entrepreneurial activity, creating socio-economic conditions for personal development. It is concluded that the modern understanding and purpose of finance requires scientific understanding as special financial relations arising on the basis of legal norms and in accordance with strategic financial policies aimed at strengthening the human potential and socio-economic development of the state in the new conditions of digital management contouring.

scholarly journals Adaptive Aspects of the Social Situation of the Development of Adolescents in the Conditions of Teaching in the Organization of Secondary Vocational Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-104
Author(s):  
S.V. Myskin ◽  
G. A Makeeva
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
College Education ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Secondary Vocational Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Learning Conditions

The study aims at theoretical analysis and empirical identification of adaptive aspects of the social situation of adolescents' development to the new learning conditions. The article presents the materials of the first stage of the empirical study obtained on a sample of 1st-year students of the Moscow organization of secondary vocational education. The study involved 500 respondents aged 16 to 17 years, of which 92% were female. The study included measurements on 7 scales for 5-7 days. We used a projective closed method for assessing the formation of the components of educational activity (it includes two options: for boys and girls). The obtained data suggest that the natural process of adaptation of adolescents to the new conditions of college education is based on its complementary components. At the same time, entering a new situation of social development is accompanied by the emergence of a number of contradictions between the actual needs of a young person and the conditions for their satisfaction. The need to form a system of interpersonal relationships with both peers and significant adults (teachers) actualizes the need for self-affirmation, which is characteristic of the younger adolescence, the previous stage of personal development. The revealed contradiction leads to the formation of an uncertain professional picture of the world.

scholarly journals The problem of the conceptualization of context in modern psychology

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.V. Grishina
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Existential Psychology ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Units Of Analysis ◽  
Modern Psychology ◽  
Life Context

Modern psychology is characterised by its interest to a topic of context, based on a growing influence of changing reality’s factors. In connection with this, the actual task is a conceptualisation of a context as a differentiation of basic units of its description. Modern psychology proceeds from multidimensionality of human existence world. The article describes situational, vital and existential contexts presented in different fields of psychology. The situational context has the oldest traditions of its description in psychology, related to search of explanatory models of relations between situational and personal determinants in human behaviour. In the situational level studies, a reality is reduced to a specific situation, a concept of situation is a basic one, describing an interaction of a person with an outside world. Descriptions of life context in psychology are represented by two areas — descriptions of a world of person’s everyday life and his/her way of life; respectively the concepts of social situation and life space of person are proposed to be considered as the units of analysis. The existential context being irreducible in Russian psychology to person’s life way and his/her everyday life, is a subject of attention in psychology of human existence and existential psychology. The concept of life-world can be a unit of existential level description.

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