Basic sociopsychological phenomena. Nature, varieties and interrelations.

Sociopsychological phenomena are of great variety and they are: socialization, adaptation, conformism, aggression and aggressive behavior, hearing and hearing behavior, social attitudes, values, psychological well-being, emotional consciousness, multiplicity of intelligence, trust. The specificity of sociopsychological phenomena should be understood as a degree of social conditioning of processes and relationships at different levels. In analyzing these phenomena, both psychological psychologicalization and unnecessary sociology must be avoided - tendencies that make up their essence.

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As object of investigation, they are extremely versatile and exhibit varying degrees of complexity. The types are: - phenomena related to the group life and activity - goals, organizational structure and dynamics of the groups; peculiarities of the assessments of the types of groups; group compatibility; processes of leadership, outsourcing and subordination, reference group, social expectation; - phenomena related to the personality and its direction - the nature and structure of the personality; relationship levels; core and periphery; value orientations; perimeter of social roles; mechanisms for perception and understanding of others; - phenomena related to the mass processes - psychological peculiarities of the mass and the crowd; national peculiarities of customs, customs and traditions; mechanisms of infection, suggestion, imitation; acts in extreme or panic situations. Despite the great diversity, the main source of their emergence is the same, namely the sphere of human communication. A fundamental vocation of social psychology is to reveal the sustainability of phenomena at the level of personality, small and large group, community, mass, crowd, nation.

The discovery of these links leads to the differentiation of some tendencies considered generally valid: - suggestion - it is a very widespread sociopsychological phenomenon. It was found that the perceptiveness increased as the group grew. There is a stable relationship between the degree of imagination and the size of the group. Adolescents and adults have a higher level of imagination; - conformism - a widespread psychological phenomenon. is to exert collective pressure on individual opinion. It turns out that its manifestations depend on the number of members in the group, on age, on mentality, on the profession; - perception and understanding between people depends on several indicators: age, gender, education, occupation, mentality. Each interactional act of interaction involves a number of psychological mechanisms and effects. They predetermine the parameters of communication; - the dynamics of public opinion and public mood, their instability, flexibility and infectiveness are of a sustained nature; - all psychological processes, properties and states of personality change depending on whether a person lives and works isolated or interacts with others in different groups.

The formation of the personality, which is the essence of socialization, is a protracted and complex process in which interpersonal relationships play a primary, albeit not, role. This competence of the problem in question is due to the extreme integrity of the concept of personality, which involves the widest range of human characteristics. It encompasses the whole set of psychic properties and qualities that define the socially significant forms of human behavior.