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PERSONALIZATION AND PERSONIFICATION CONCEPTS IN RUSSIAN PSYCHOLOGY: PERSPECTIVES OF INVESTIGATION
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Becoming-a-person processes have been the issue of a heated discussion in modern Russian psychology for recent years. Two major theories existing on the issue are the concept of personalization (V.A. Petrowsky, 1981) and the concept of personification (A.B. Orlov, 1995). Both theories regard personalization process as the realization of an individual’s need to be a person (to become a personality); but the personification concept considers an alternative personification process, regarded to realize the need of an individual to be oneself. Principal problematic trends concerning comparison of the existing views on the issue are analyzed. Considered confrontation between the personalization and personification concepts helps to explain why new methodological issues in personality studies are needed today. The question of a methodological approach, appropriate to study the processes person comes into being with, is set. The author suggests applying the three-level model of a subject (Orlov, Orlova, Volkova, 2010) to becoming-a-person processes studies as a perspective way to investigate the issue. Actually, the idea is to correlate certain forms of becoming-a-person processes with certain вЂlevels’ of a subject’s social activity and certain forms of verbal signification these processes and activities take in speech.
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