The social psychology of nation-building: Conceptual framework and principles of research methodology
Abstract
The article presents the results of the first stage of work on a research topic “Potential of socio-psychological thinking forms for national building and conflict resolving” which is implementing in the Laboratory for Methodology of Psychosocial and Political-Psychological Research, ISPP of NAES of Ukraine. The scientific search was targeted on such tasks’ solution as: (1) the justification of the conceptual frameworks of social psychology of nation-building as a particular scientific domain; (2) the development of theoretical socio-psychological model for nation-building process and methodological principles for its socio-psychological research. In line with these objectives an attempt of conceptualization of social-psychological frameworks for nation-building process was made by scholars’ team. The integral approach to the nation analyzing as a holistic socio-psychological phenomenon that based on the conception of socio-psychological thinking by M. Sliusarevskyi was proposed. The supporting frames of a theoretical socio-psychological model of nation-building process and methodological principles of its socio-psychological research are: (1) theoretical and methodological approaches to the research of nation-building process, which were formed in the historical-philosophical and socio-political cognition; (2) ethnogenetic, culture-historical and psychological aspects of nation-building process which are the subject of ethnic psychology (ethnic and national psychology); (3) sociopsychological aspects of nation-building process which are considered in the coordinates of socio-psychological thinking and its forms conception. The conceptual framework of social psychology of nation-building as a particular scientific domain is grounded, its research goal, object and subject are established. The operational socio-psychological definitions of the “nation” and “nation-building” concepts are presented. The structure of experimental design for the curriculum “Social psychology of nation-building” as a conceptual generalization of bases and methodological principles of the same research is presented
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