Social Psychology. Ethnopsychology

The general characteristics of the subject are the place of social psychology in the system of scientific knowledge; the history of social psychology, the peculiarities of the discipline's formation inUzbekistan; methodological principles of socio–psychological research, the evolution of paradigms anddirections of social psychology; Patterns of communication and human interaction – the communicative side of communication(specifics of human communication; types of communication; means: verbal and non-verbalcommunication; effectiveness of the communicative process; features of mass communication); the interactive side of communication (psychological characteristics of joint activity and its various forms;competition and cooperation as the main types of interaction); socio-psychological characteristics socialand interpersonal conflict; the perceptual side of communication (the general scheme of socio-perceptualprocesses; mechanisms and effects; attributive processes; problems of social perception);communication and cognition; Social psychology of groups – group as a subject of social psychology research; classification of groups; methodological problems of studying large social groups; small groups ("boundaries"; signs;"group dynamics": processes of formation, cohesion, leadership, group decisions, effectiveness); groupdevelopment – psychological theory of the collective (modern theories of team building); psychology of intergroup relations (mechanisms of intergroup perception; effects of intra-group favoritism andintergroup discrimination); Social psychology of personality – the specifics of the socio-psychological approach tounderstanding personality; the relationship between personality and group in social psychology;socialization; the concept and levels of socialization; the content of the process of socialization, stagesand institutions of socialization, mechanisms of socialization; Self-concept as a result of socialdevelopment of personality; social and personal identity; the process of socialization in a changingworld; social attitude; approaches to the study of attitudes; structure and functions of social attitudes;changing social attitudes of the individual; the problem of the relationship between attitudes andbehavior; the measurement of attitudes; socio-psychological qualities of personality; perceptualmechanisms of social interaction of personality: perceptual protection, the effect of "expectations", the phenomenon of cognitive complexity; the perspective of personality research in social psychology; Practical applications of social psychology – fundamental and applied research; the specifics of applied research in social psychology; the problem of the effectiveness of applied research; practicalsocial psychology; the problem of intervention and psychological assistance: professional, personal andethical opportunities and limitations; the role of a psychologist practitioner: expert, consultant, educator;strategies for the practical work of a social psychologist; The main areas of applied research andpractical work in social psychology are: the sphere of industrial production, the sphere of management,the sphere of organizational development, the sphere of mass communication and information processes,the sphere of advertising, marketing and consumer behavior, the sphere of education, the sphere of law,the sphere of science, the sphere of family relations and upbringing, the sphere of politics and publicrelations, the sphere of social consciousness, the sphere of interethnic relations, the sphere of healthcare;features of applied socio-psychological research and practical work of a social psychologist in the context of social change.