Psychological Laws of the Social Development of the Personality in Ontogeny

Cultivation of the new man as an individual person is a requirement of developed socialist society. At the present stage of socialist construction, which entails a qualitatively new level of decision making [in confronting] socioeconomic and political problems, the role of the human factor in all spheres of the vital activity of society becomes especially urgent, and the importance of people's maintaining a responsible social position becomes greater. The achievements in public education, science, and culture have made it both possible and necessary to concentrate attention not only on instruction but, most importantly, on cultivating the new man, who is "not merely the bearer of a specific sum of knowledge but, first and foremost, a citizen of socialist society"[7. P. 391. The need to deal with this problem has had an impact on the main areas of reform of the general educational and vocational training school, a reform based on a new level of psychological and pedagogical knowledge, and defines the tasks of further scientific inquiry. One of the most important tasks of psychology is to intensify study of the development of the personality, to discover the psychological laws of its development, and the conditions and mechanisms for accelerating the process of personal self-determination

Personality · Personality development · Political science · Politics · Position (finance) · Process (computing) · Social change · Socioeconomic development · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Vocational education · Education and Professional Development · Educational Methods and Teacher Development · Law · Psychology · Psychology of Development and Education · Social Psychology

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