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Sventsitsky A. L.

Social psychology: textbook. - M.: TK Welby, Prospect Publishing House, 2005 .-- 336 p.

ISBN 5-482-00060-5

The textbook contains a systematic presentation of the foundations of social psychology. It highlights such fundamental problems as the social psychology of the individual, the mutual influence of the individual and the group, communication and social cognition, interpersonal influence. The history of the development of socio-psychological knowledge is also thoroughly considered, an overview of the main methods of social psychology is given. The content of this textbook corresponds to the course program and is based on materials from domestic and foreign socio-psychological research, including the most modern works.

For students of higher educational institutions, teachers, everyone interested in the problems of social psychology.

To my grandchildren -

Martha, Leonty, Erofei, Arseny

FOREWORD

Domestic social psychology in the process of its formation and development has passed a difficult path. The theoretical thought of Russian sociologists, philosophers and psychologists of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, who touched upon social and psychological problems, did not lead to the isolation of social psychology as an independent science. Attempts to form "Marxist social psychology" in the 1920s. were not crowned with success for a number of objective and subjective reasons (for more details, see Chapter 2 of this work). A long break in the development of Russian social psychology from the late 1920s to the late 1950s. led to our lag (let's call a spade a spade) from world science.

It will probably be surprising for a modern Russian student mastering the basics of psychological science to learn that for a long period of time social psychology was not taught anywhere in our country. The author of these lines graduated from the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Philosophy of Leningrad State University in 1959, having firmly learned (this is how they taught!) That social psychology is a bourgeois science and has no place in the system of Marxist psychology. However, times are changing, and we are changing with them. And no matter what pessimists say, no one can stop scientific progress. In the wake of social and political changes in the second half of the 1950s and early 1960s. in the USSR, it becomes possible to revive the domestic socio-psychological science (at that time, of course, on a Marxist basis). Since 1966, the teaching of a course in social psychology began at the Faculty of Psychology, which had just opened at the Leningrad State University.

The author of these lines, at that time a junior researcher at the Laboratory of Social Psychology at the Research Institute for Complex Social Research at Leningrad University, remembers well his teaching difficulties of the period when he had to take up the first course in social psychology for students. Of course, there were no Russian textbooks on social psychology, and no one had any experience in teaching this science. However, as people say now, "the process has begun." In Leningrad (where the first laboratory of social psychology was opened at the university in 1962) and other cities, research began, reports on socio-psychological problems appear at scientific conferences, a community of researchers is growing -

At that time, social psychology attracted not only psychologists, but also enthusiasts from other scientific fields, the first monographs on social psychology by B.D. Parygina, E.S. Kuzmina, A.G. Kovaleva, A.A. Bodaleva, B.F. Porshnev. These works have served as teaching aids in social psychology for several years.

An important milestone in the development of Russian social psychology and an indicator of its maturity was the publication of the first textbook by G.M. Andreeva "Social Psychology" (Moscow: Moscow State University Publishing House, 1980), which has undergone several reprints and successfully fulfills its functions to this day.

The cardinal changes that have taken place in our society over the past decade could not but affect social psychology. Freed from the ideological dictates of one ruling party, Russian social psychologists in their works try to follow the mainstream of world science. This manifests itself in both their theoretical research and empirical research. The training of certified social psychologists is also improving, which, as practice shows, is in no way inferior to graduates of foreign universities.

At the present time, one cannot complain about the lack of socio-psychological literature. On the shelves of bookstores you can see monographs of domestic and foreign psychologists, collections of their articles, tutorials... However, all this does not exclude the publication of new and new textbooks. No author of a textbook on social psychology can claim that his textbook is exceptional and has nothing to do with other textbooks. One textbook always complements the other in some way. Even in secondary school, it is considered useful to have not one normative textbook, but several, each of which can be good in its own way, and the teacher has the right to make the final choice. Moreover, this applies to higher education.

This textbook reflects the main content of the course taught by the author at St. Petersburg State University and the Baltic Institute of Ecology, Politics and Law. The material presented is based on the data of domestic and foreign (mainly American) social psychologists. Each chapter ends summary its content, here key concepts are highlighted, the assimilation of which should be paid attention to, and a short list of references for additional reading is given. At the end of the textbook there is a complete list of used literature, which will allow both the student and the specialist to refer to the primary source to deepen their knowledge.

The author is aware that the content of this textbook suffers from a certain incompleteness. However, the question of which sections should include a textbook on social psychology, is open source. Even if you turn to modern American textbooks on social psychology (and here a lot of experience has been accumulated), you can see how dissimilar they are in content to each other. Both jokingly and seriously, the author always tells his students that as many social psychologists as there are in the world of social psychologists, there are as many views on the content of social psychology as a science. However, the main core issues, of course, should be present in all textbooks. These are issues of socialization (the formation of the individual as a person), the mutual influence of people on each other (both at the individual and at the group level), social cognition and communication. This textbook addresses all of these issues in varying degrees of detail. The works of the St. Petersburg (Leningrad) socio-psychological school, the founder of which was E.S. Kuzmin. We pay considerable attention to the methods of social psychology. This is due to the fact that over the past quarter of a century not a single work has been published, which would set out in sufficient detail the methods of collecting and analyzing primary information in empirical socio-psychological research. Thus, familiarizing readers with how the material is obtained, which then leads to the construction of theories or the development of practical recommendations, is necessary to obtain a holistic picture of socio-psychological science.

The author considers it his pleasant duty to thank those students whose attention and interest in lectures, questions and discussions at seminars stimulated the work on this book. The author is deeply grateful to his colleagues in the Department of Social Psychology of St. state university, whose "emotional climate" is the best possible way to promote creativity. Taking this opportunity, I sincerely thank Professor A.A. Krylov, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology from 1976 to 2002, for his attention to the author's scientific endeavors and their support.

Special thanks to his wife and faithful friend G.T. Tsetsulnikova, who took part in the preparation of the manuscript for publication, her first reader and critic.

A.L. Sventsitsky St. Petersburg, August 2002

Chapter 1 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AS A SCIENCE

§ 1. What is the social context?

Imagine this picture. Land, field. On it is a peasant, diligently working this area, as they say, in the sweat of his brow. But then a boy appears next to him, takes a tomato out of his pants pocket and ... throws it right at the peasant's head. Direct hit. And now a question for you, dear reader: "What will the peasant feel? How will he behave? What actions will he take?"

“It depends on what kind of peasant,” - perhaps many will say. "It depends on his temperament," - add a person familiar with the basics general psychology... If a peasant is a choleric, then he, apparently, will rush after the boy to kick his ears. If the peasant is a phlegmatic, then he will only stand in thought, divorced from work. A specialist in psychophysiology will explain well why sparks fell from the eyes of the peasant. However, neither the first nor the second will undertake to predict more accurately the possible behavior of the peasant in this example.

Then it will be the turn of the social psychologist. “Let's start from the beginning,” he will first of all say. “There is no peasant at all, there is no boy at all. Voltaire also said that each of us is a creature of the time in which he lives. Therefore, each person should be considered in a certain social context, that is e. in close connection with all his social environment. Suppose this example refers to the period of feudalism. A peasant works on a plot of land rented from a feudal lord, and a mischievous boy is the son of this feudal lord. Let’s take a different era. A peasant is a farmer cultivating his own plot of land, and a boy is the son of another farmer who owes the former a large sum of money for a long time. Obviously, in this case, we have more reason to expect aggressive reactions to the boy. from the peasant's side.

This example (from the work of V.B. Olshansky) convincingly testifies to the need to take into account a certain social context within which the situation of interaction of certain people under consideration is carried out.

Even if a person is alone at the moment, he nevertheless remains or seeks to be within a certain social context, being

A social animal (as Aristotle called man back in the 4th century BC). Remember the familiar from childhood novel about Robinson Crusoe. Soon after the navigator came to a desert island, he decided to start a calendar - an integral part of the society to which he himself belonged. Robinson made a line every day with a knife. At the same time, a long line meant Sunday, and even longer - the first day of each month. Now answer, please, why did Robinson keep a calendar all the years of his stay on a desert island? Why did you set aside Sundays? The meaning was here, and this meaning is in the social nature of man. Let me remind you, by the way, that the devoted friend of the hero of the novel Friday had no idea about the calendar at all and was not at all burdened by this. Each of us has his own social world, the influence of which we are all susceptible to. On the other hand, our social world is undergoing certain influences on our part. This mutual influence is at the center of the research interest of the social psychologist, and the social context is the basis for understanding human social behavior.

§ 2. The subject of social psychology

Each of us lives in a world inhabited by many other people. Among them there are relatives and friends, friends and acquaintances. There are also quite a few acquaintances. With someone we constantly communicate, work together, study or spend our free time, see others from time to time. Someone comes across us only once in a lifetime, especially if we live in a big city, and we will never meet hundreds of millions of other people inhabiting our planet. However, both those, and others, and the third one way or another affect us, causing certain changes in our consciousness and behavior.

From time immemorial, a person thought about how to better understand other people, influence them, establish certain relationships with them. This was caused by the needs of practice - the search for the best forms of organization and interaction of people in various fields - economic, political, military, educational, medical, etc.

Why do different people perceive and evaluate the same phenomena differently? How are beliefs formed and can they be changed? What forces and in what way influence the actions of people? On what basis can we trust this or that person?

Why do people often agree with the majority opinion? And why is it the other way around, and one person convinces everyone else? How can the actions of several

Who are the people and even large masses of people? Why do so many of us strive to help others? What can cause aggressive behavior in people? For what reasons even close people sometimes quarrel? Why are the manifestations of friendship and love so varied? Is it possible to learn successful communication? How do the peculiarities of relationships between people affect their health?

Today, such a branch of scientific knowledge as social psychology is trying to answer all such questions arising from the diverse forms of contacts between people. This is a science that studies the laws of people knowing each other, their relationships and interactions. So, the focus of the social psychologist's research attention is on the consequences different kinds contacts between people, manifested in the form of thoughts, feelings and actions of individual individuals. These contacts can be direct, as they say, face to face. They can also be mediated, for example, through the use of mass communications - press, radio, television, cinema, the Internet, etc. This is how people are influenced not only by certain persons, but also by individual social groups and society as a whole. ...

Contacts between people can be casual and relatively short-lived, for example, a conversation between two fellow travelers in the same compartment of a railway carriage. Conversely, interpersonal contacts can become systematic and long-term. For example, in the family, at work, in the company of friends. In this case, the object of research interest of a social psychologist can be not only small groups of people, but also such communities that include a significant number of people distributed over a large territory. For example, nations, classes, parties, trade unions, large contingents of various enterprises, firms, etc. These communities can be characterized by varying degrees of organization. Compare, for example, the huge crowd in the square that gathered on the occasion of a mass celebration and a large military unit. A wide variety of large groups also act as objects of social psychology.

It should be noted that certain relationships arise not only between individuals, but also between whole groups, both small and large. Intergroup relationships can be of a different nature - from mutual understanding and cooperation to acute confrontation. The ubiquitous phenomena of globalization, characteristic of the beginning of our century, make the problems extremely urgent intercultural communication... Today everyone large quantity representatives of various ethnic groups and cultures directly

Collide with each other in the implementation of various joint actions. Teaching these people to successfully interact to achieve common goals is also a socio-psychological problem.

So, considering the structure of social psychology as a science, the following sections can be distinguished:

Social psychology of personality;

Social psychology of communication and interpersonal interaction;

Social psychology of groups.

Social psychology of the individual covers the problematics determined by the social nature of the individual, its inclusion in various groups and society as a whole. These are, for example, the issues of socialization of the individual, its socio-psychological qualities, the motivation of the individual's behavior, the influence of social norms on this behavior.

Social psychology of communication and interpersonal interaction considers various types and means of communication between people (including mass communications), the mechanisms of these communications, types of human interaction - from cooperation to conflict. Closely related to this issue are issues of social cognition, such as perception, understanding and assessment of each other by people.

Social psychology of groups covers a variety of group phenomena and processes, the structure and dynamics of small and large groups, various stages of their life, as well as intergroup relationships.

§ 3. Specificity of the socio-psychological approach

As you can see, the scope of the phenomena of social psychology is very wide. Ultimately, however, this science tries to reveal how people influence each other and how they behave in different situations, i.e. various features of social behavior. It is known that a number of other areas of scientific knowledge are also engaged in the study of certain aspects of social behavior of people. What is the specificity of socio-psychological analysis? It can be distinguished from other approaches using the example of such a phenomenon as crime in large cities (Taylor, Peplau and Sears, 1994).

Sociologists, economists, political scientists, and other social scientists use social level of analysis(i.e. one that relates to the characteristics of society as a whole). In doing so, researchers are trying to understand the general types of social behavior. For example, homicide rates, voter behavior, or consumer spending. According

With this approach, social behavior is explained by factors such as economic decline, class conflicts, clashes between rival ethnic groups, crop failure in certain regions, government policy, or technological change. The purpose of societal analysis is to identify links between broad social influences and general types of social behavior. In studying urban violence, sociologists are looking for the relationship between the level of violent crime and factors such as poverty, immigration or the industrialization of society.

Individual level of analysis commonly used in personality psychology and clinical psychology... Here the behavior of people is explained based on the unique history of the life of this person and his psychological characteristics... According to this approach, personality traits and motives can explain why a particular individual behaves in a certain way and why two people may react in completely different ways in the same situation. At the individual level of analysis, there is a tendency to explain violent crimes in terms of the criminal's unique life history and personality traits.

For example, V.L. Vasiliev emphasizes the need to study the so-called marginal personalities, the main characteristic of which is internal social instability. The "marginalized" are distinguished by their inability to fully master cultural traditions and develop appropriate social skills of behavior in the environment in which they find themselves. So, this is a resident of a rural "hinterland", forced to live and work in a big city, an adult who has moved to a region where they speak a language unfamiliar to him, and does not know local customs and traditions. Experiencing high level emotional stress, a "marginal" personality easily comes into conflict with the surrounding social environment (Vasiliev, 2000).

Social psychologists turn to a different level of analysis - interpersonal(interpersonal). Their attention is focused on the current social situation in which the person finds herself. The social situation includes other people in a given environment, their attitudes and behavior, as well as their relationship to a given personality. To understand the causes of violent crime, social psychologists can pose the question as follows: What types of interpersonal situations generate aggressive responses that can lead to an increase in violent behavior? One of the important socio-psychological explanations is that states of frustration cause anger in people and thus contribute to tendencies

Act aggressively. This is called the frustration-aggression hypothesis. In accordance with it, it is assumed that a person, having encountered an obstacle on the way to achieving the desired goal, experiences frustration and anger and, as a result, is likely to lose his temper. This effect of frustration is one of the explanations for violent crimes at the interpersonal level.

With the help of the hypothesis of frustration - aggression, according to American psychologists, it is also possible to explain how large-scale economic and societal factors create situations that lead to violence and crime. For example, underprivileged people in overcrowded urban slums are undoubtedly frustrated; they cannot get a good job, afford a decent home, provide a safe environment for their children, and so on. Frustration over all of these issues can lead to anger, which is sometimes the direct cause of violent crime. The frustration-aggression hypothesis focuses on the immediate social situation, the feelings and thoughts that this situation evokes in people with different social characteristics, and the influence of these subjective reactions on behavior.

Of course, each of these three approaches (societal, individual, interpersonal) has its own value and is essential if we want to understand as fully as possible complex social behavior. Therefore, there is a significant overlap in the nature of research carried out among these scientific disciplines. This book introduces the reader to the world of human behavior from a socio-psychological perspective. However, at the same time, we must note that it is impossible to draw clear demarcation lines separating social psychology from other sciences. The famous French social psychologist S. Moscovici characterized social psychology as a "bridge" between other branches of knowledge (Moscovici, 1989). He meant that social psychology refers to the discoveries of sociology, anthropology, political science, economics and biology in order to better understand how the individual is included in the larger social system.

§ 4. Two social psychologies

Perhaps the title of this paragraph will seem rather strange to another reader, but nevertheless, as they say, the fact remains. Already from the beginning of the last century, two main branches of social psychology, psychological and sociological, began to take shape, primarily in the United States. Differences between the problems of these two areas and their theoretical foundations sometimes look very significant. Evidence of such

State of affairs is given by the American sociologist A.S. Tomars. In one of the colleges he knew, social psychology was taught in a psychology course. Over the years, she was taught both semesters, but with two different teachers. One of them gravitated towards sociology, the other towards individual psychology. The courses of these teachers had almost nothing in common, and as a result, students endured "completely different ideas about the subject read to them, depending on whether they listened to it in the fall or in the spring semester" (Tomars, 1961).

Noting the presence of theoretical and practical problems caused by a kind of duality of social psychology, G.M. Andreeva believes that such a state of affairs is permissible only at some stage in the development of science, and "the benefit of discussions about its subject should be, among other things, in contributing to an unambiguous solution of the issue" (Andreeva, 1996, p. 22) ... However, so far the existence of two social psychologies has been stated on the pages of modern American and European textbooks as a tribute to a long-established tradition (Franzoi, 1996; Houston et al., 2001).

First of all, it is noted that, although both areas of socio-psychological knowledge consider social behavior, they do it from different theoretical positions. The focus of psychological social psychology is on the individual. In doing so, researchers try to understand and predict social behavior, turning to the analysis of immediate stimuli, psychological states and personality traits. Variations in behavior are assumed to be due to how people interpret social stimuli or their personality differences. Even in the study of group dynamics, there is a tendency to explain these processes at the individual level. The main research method here is experiment. Proponents of sociological social psychology, on the other hand, downplay the role of individual differences and the effects of direct social incentives on behavior. The focus of this direction is the group or society. At the same time, researchers, in order to understand social behavior, turn to the analysis of societal variables, such as socioeconomic status, social roles and cultural norms. More attention is paid here to the characteristics of larger social groups than in psychological social psychology. Therefore, social psychologists of the sociological direction are mainly concerned with the explanation of such societal problems as poverty, crime, deviant behavior.

The main research methods here are polls and participant observation.

It is generally recognized that both areas of modern social psychology influence each other, mutually enriching. However, today, despite this mutual influence, psychological social psychology and sociological social psychology are developing in parallel. Considering the problems of social psychology in this book, we will proceed from the psychological direction of this science. The understanding of social psychology as a psychological science is characteristic of the socio-psychological school of St. Petersburg (Leningrad) State University, where such an understanding is traditional.

SUMMARY


  1. A scientific approach to understanding the behavior of a person
    century involves taking into account a certain social context,
    those. close connection of a person with all his social environment.

  2. Social psychology is a science that studies law
    the dimensions of people knowing each other, their relationships
    and mutual influences. The focus of the social psychologist
    the consequences of various kinds of contacts between
    people, manifested in the form of thoughts, feelings and actions from
    efficient individuals. These contacts can be both direct
    natural (face to face) and mediated (by
    use of mass communications).

  3. The structure of social psychology as a science includes
    the following sections: social psychology of personality, social
    mental psychology of communication and interpersonal interaction
    viya, social psychology of groups.

  4. The specificity of social psychology as a science, in contrast to co
    cyology and psychology of personality consists in the use of in
    terpersonal level of analysis. Attention of social
    psychologists focuses on the current social situation,
    in which there was any personality. Social situation
    tion includes other people in a given environment, their mouth
    novelties and behavior, as well as the attitude towards this person.

  5. Since the beginning of the last century, two branches of social
    mental psychology - psychological and sociological. Both
    directions consider social behavior, but with time
    personal theoretical positions. The focus of psycholo
    The individual is located in the classical social psychology. In the center
    attention of sociological social psychology - group
    or society as a whole. Both directions of modern social
    psychology influences each other, mutually enriching.
Key concepts

/ Social context V Social psychology V Social psychology of personality

S Social psychology of communication and interpersonal interaction

V Social psychology of groups S Interpersonal analysis S Psychological social psychology V Sociological social psychology

Additional reading literature

Andreeva G.M. Social Psychology. M Aspect-Press 1996.

Aronson E., Wilson T., Aykert R. Social Psychology. SPb .: PRIME-EVROZNAK, 2002.

Parygin B.D. Social Psychology. SPb .: IGUP, 1999.

Social psychology / Otv. ed. AL. Zhuravlev. M .: PER SE, 2002.

Social psychology in the works of Russian psychologists. SPb .: Peter, 2000.

Shikhirev P.N. Contemporary social psychology. M .: Publishing house "Institute of Psychology RAS", 1999.

The textbook contains a systematic presentation of the foundations of social psychology. It highlights such fundamental problems as the social psychology of the individual, the mutual influence of the individual and the group, communication and social cognition, interpersonal influence. The history of the development of socio-psychological knowledge is also thoroughly considered, an overview of the main methods of social psychology is given. The content of this textbook corresponds to the course program and is based on materials from domestic and foreign socio-psychological research, including the most modern works. For students of higher educational institutions, teachers, everyone interested in the problems of social psychology.

Foreword Chapter 1. Social psychology as a science § 1. What is the social context? § 2. The subject of social psychology § 3. Specificity of the socio-psychological approach § 4. Two social psychologies Summary Key concepts Literature for additional reading Chapter 2. History of the development of socio-psychological knowledge § 1. Search for the causes of social behavior: from antiquity to the XX in § 2. Making social psychology independent science § 3. Basic theoretical approaches in Western social psychology § 4. Development of domestic social psychology Abstract Key concepts Literature for additional reading Chapter 3. Methods of social psychology § 1. Stages of social and psychological research § 2. Correlation and experimental research § 3. Observation § 4. Interview methods § 5. Document analysis Summary Key concepts Literature for additional reading Chapter 4. Personality in the social world § 1. The concept of personality § 2. Self-concept and self-esteem § 3. Social identity as a part of Self-concept § 4. Self-regulation § 5. The concept of social role § 6. В Fulfillment of social roles § 7. Mutual influence of personality and social role Summary Key concepts Literature for additional reading Chapter 5. Socialization § 1. The nature of socialization § 2. Theories of socialization § 3. Socialization agents Summary Key concepts Literature for additional reading Chapter 6. Social attitude and behavior § 1. The concept of attitude § 2. Formation and change of attitudes § 3. The concept of dispositional regulation of personality behavior § 4. Is there a connection between attitudes and behavior? Summary Key concepts References for additional reading Chapter 7. Social groups: basic characteristics § 1. Group as an object of socio-psychological analysis § 2. Functions of the group § 3. Group size §4. Group structure § 5. Intragroup communications § 6. Sociometry as a method of studying group structure § 7. Classification of groups § 8. Organization as a social group Summary Key concepts References for additional reading Chapter 8. Group influences on individual behavior § 1. Phases of group membership § 2. The influence of group norms on the personality § 3. Conformity: the influence of the majority §4. Conformity: minority influence § 5. Reference groups and personality § 6. Social facilitation § 7. Social relaxation § 8. Social facilitation and social relaxation § 9. Deindividualization Summary Key concepts References for additional reading Chapter 9. Group dynamics and group efficiency § 1. The concept of group dynamics § 2. Psychological compatibility of group members § 3. Decision making in groups § 4. Pros and cons of group decision making § 5. Leadership and leadership in groups and organizations § 6. Socio-psychological climate of the group Summary Key concepts Literature for additional reading Chapter 10. Communication and social cognition § 1. The concept of communication § 2. Main aspects of the communicative process § 3. Non-verbal communication § 4 Formation of the first impression of a person § 5. Social categories and stereotypes § 6. Causal attribution § 7. Social interaction and communication Summary Key concepts Additional reading literature Chapter 11. Interpersonal influence and social power § 1. Definition of concepts § 2. Dependence , uncertainty and power § 3. How do people p influenced? § 4. Fundamentals of social power (psychological aspects) § 5. Authority of the power of legitimacy § b. From obedience to aggressiveness § 7. Problems and perspectives of studies of influence and power Abstract Key concepts Literature for additional reading Literature

In 2015, 50 years have passed since the beginning of work at St. Petersburg State University as an honorary professor of St. Petersburg State University, professor of the Department of Social Psychology, Doctor of Psychology Sventsitsky Anatoly Leonidovich.

Sventsitsky Anatoly Leonidovich - Doctor of Psychology, Professor of the Department of Social Psychology of the Faculty of Psychology. Born on October 7, 1936 in the city of Kingisepp, Leningrad Region. At the end high school in 1954 he entered the Department of Psychology of the Philosophical Faculty of Leningrad State University. After graduating from university in 1959. A. L. Sventsitsky worked as a literary collaborator in a number of newspapers in Leningrad and the region.

All subsequent life and work of A. L. Sventsitsky, from 1962 to the present day, is inextricably linked with the Leningrad - St. Petersburg University. In 1962, A. L. Sventsitsky entered graduate school at the Department of Psychology and in 1966 defended his Ph.D. thesis "Interview as a method of social psychology." On July 1, 1965, he began to work at the Scientific Research Institute for Comprehensive Social Research (NIIKSI) of the University, first as a junior and soon as a senior researcher in the laboratory of social psychology.

The first complex work in which the staff of the laboratory of social psychology took part (together with other laboratories) was the study of the effectiveness of management of the Leningrad University. Since then, the study of social and psychological problems of management of labor collectives has become one of the main scientific problems developed by A. L. Sventsitsky. Since 1968, from the beginning of the foundation by Professor E.S.Kuzmin of the Department of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology, also the first in the country, A.L. Sventsitsky becomes its senior teacher, associate professor, professor (since 1982), head (since 1989) ... In 1980 he defended his doctoral dissertation "Social Psychology of Production Team Management". Over the past years, he read to students - future psychologists, journalists and philosophers such training courses and special courses as "Social Psychology", "Methods of Social Psychology", "Actual Problems of Social Psychology", "Social Psychology of Management", "Military Psychology", " Foundations of Sociology ”. In 1990 he was awarded the Leningrad University Prize for lecturer skills. AL Sventsitsky also taught and participated in joint scientific and pedagogical programs in Germany (1997-2001) and Italy (2001-2007), presented reports at scientific conferences in Bulgaria, Brazil and the USA. The main scientific works of A. L. Sventsitsky are devoted to the problems of the psychology of managing organizations, the methods of social psychology, and its history.

A. L. Sventsitsky received the State Scientific Scholarship three times (1994-2003) and has the honorary title "Honored Worker of Higher Education Russian Federation"(1999), awarded the Medal of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, II degree (2007). A. L. Sventsitsky is a member of the St. Petersburg Psychological Society and the Society for Psychological Research of Social Problems (USA). In 2006 he was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of St. Petersburg State University.

A. L. Sventsitsky is the author of 160 scientific works (including 18 works published abroad). Of these, 6 monographs and one textbook "Social Psychology", recommended by the UMO as a textbook for students of higher educational institutions studying in the specialty "Psychology". Two of his monographs were published in Japan (1977) and Czechoslovakia (1985). His individual articles have been translated into English, German, Polish and Czech. He has successfully delivered a presentation on management psychology at an international seminar in Brazil, at the Department of Psychology at the University of California (USA) and other international conferences.

A. L. Sventsitsky is one of the initiators of the development of the direction of industrial social psychology in Russian psychology. In the 1970s, he justified the allocation of a new scientific direction- social psychology of management, a number of provisions of the socio-psychological theory of management of industrial organizations have been formed, some patterns have been identified in the implementation of managerial influences at three levels: personality, primary working group, organization as a whole. The system of macro- and microenvironmental factors influencing the socio-psychological climate of the primary working group is highlighted, the specificity of the social regulation of the activity of the individual as a subject and object of control is determined. A.L. Sventsitsky was the first in Russian social psychology to engage in scientific development of the interview method, suggesting ways to increase its effectiveness. The data of applied research by A.L. Sventsitsky were successfully used to improve management at a number of enterprises in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). His guidelines and developments to improve social and psychological relations at industrial enterprises were exhibited at the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow in 1969 and 1970. One of the practical results of A. L. Sventsitsky's research was the creation of the Faculty of Active Methods for Teaching Leaders on the basis of the Izhorskiy Zavod association in the 1980s.

A. L. Sventsitsky created a scientific school of social psychology of organization management at the Leningrad - St. Petersburg University. His work in this area finds its development in the scientific research of his students. 50 candidate and 10 doctoral dissertations were defended under his supervision. His students, who were post-graduate students, currently work not only in Russia, but also in research organizations in Bulgaria, Belarus, Egypt, Israel, Syria, Uzbekistan, Sweden and Estonia. Six of them, already being doctors of psychological sciences, also continue their research activities in the field of social management psychology. The data obtained by A. L. Sventsitsky's students make it possible to develop socio-psychological methods for optimizing the management of social organizations, taking into account the principle of a differentiated approach to different categories of personnel.

Anatoly Leonidovich Sventsitsky enjoys deep respect and well-deserved authority among workers and students for his professional competence, scientific exactingness, responsiveness, benevolence and adherence to principles.

Sventsitsky Anatoly Leonidovich,St. Petersburg

Doctor of Psychology, Professor. Honored Worker of the Higher School of the Russian Federation. Honorary Professor of St. Petersburg State University.

Professor of the Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, St. Petersburg State University.

Member of the St. Petersburg Psychological Society and the Society for Psychological Research of Social Problems (USA).

In 1959 he graduated from the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Leningrad State University named after V.I. A.A. Zhdanov. In 1966 he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the topic "Interview as a method of social psychology." In 1980 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Social psychology of production team management."

After graduating from the university in 1959, A.L. Sventsitsky worked as a literary contributor in a number of newspapers in Leningrad and the region. In 1962 A.L. Sventsitsky was accepted as a laboratory assistant in the country's first laboratory of social psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Leningrad State University. From 1962 to 1965 - Post-graduate student of the Laboratory of Social Psychology, Research Institute of Complex Social Research, Leningrad State University. In 1965 he began to work first as a junior, and soon as a senior researcher at the laboratory of social psychology at NIIKSI LSU. Since 1967 assistant, then senior lecturer, associate professor, professor of the Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Leningrad State University. Since 1989 head of the department.

Research interests: personality in an organization, psychology of managing organizations, socio-psychological climate of the work collective, methods of socio-psychological research, teaching social psychology at a university, history of foreign social psychology.

A.L. Sventsitsky created a scientific school of social psychology of organization management at the Leningrad - St. Petersburg University. He is one of the initiators of the development of the direction of industrial social psychology in Russian psychology. In the 1970s, he substantiated the allocation of a new scientific direction - social psychology of management, formed a number of provisions of the socio-psychological theory of management of industrial organizations, identified some patterns in the implementation of managerial influences at three levels: personality, primary working group, organization as a whole. The system of macro- and microenvironmental factors influencing the socio-psychological climate of the primary working group is highlighted, the specificity of the social regulation of the activity of the individual as a subject and object of control is determined.

A.L. Sventsitsky was the first in Russian social psychology to engage in the scientific development of the interview method, suggesting ways to increase its effectiveness.

Reads training courses and special courses: "Social Psychology", "Methods of Social Psychology", "Actual Problems of Social Psychology", "Social Psychology of Management", "Military Psychology", "Foundations of Sociology". A.L. Sventsitsky taught and participated in joint scientific and pedagogical programs in Germany (1997-2001) and Italy (2001-2007).

Author of 160 scientific papers (including 18 papers published abroad). Of these, 6 monographs and one textbook "Social Psychology", recommended by the UMO as a textbook for students of higher educational institutions studying in the specialty "Psychology". Two monographs were published in Japan (1977) and Czechoslovakia (1985). Main publications:

  • Socio-psychological problems of management. L., 1975 (published in Japan, 1977).
  • Industrial social psychology. L., 1982 (published in Czechoslovakia, 1985) (co-author and editor-in-chief).
  • Leader: word and deed. Socio-psychological aspects. M., 1983.
  • Social psychology of management. L., 1986.
  • Organizational Management Psychology: Textbook. allowance. SPb., 1999.
  • Social Psychology: A Textbook. M., 2003.
  • A Brief Psychological Dictionary. M., 2008.

Awards:

In 1990 he was awarded the Leningrad University Prize for lecturer skills. Received the State Scientific Scholarship three times (1994-2003). He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (2007).

The textbook systematically sets out the foundations of social psychology in accordance with the provisions of modern works of domestic and foreign researchers. The issues of social psychology of personality, the main characteristics of social groups are considered, the problems of interpersonal influence and communication are highlighted. The main directions of applied work in social psychology are described. For better assimilation of the studied material, a summary is given at the end of each chapter, as well as questions for self-examination and discussion at seminars, tasks for independent work.

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