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The intensity and scale of socio-political and socio-psychological changes taking place today in modern society imposes special requirements on the psychological resources of a person as a subject of life. In conditions of high uncertainty, rising social tensions and globalization, there is a growing need to master the ways of organizing your life taking into account the time indicators. Modern production methods often require self-organizing in time specialists, who are able to respond adequately to changing cond...

The article deals with the views of representatives of the American political science, such as S. Lipset, E. Raab, N. Smelser and others on the problem of extremism. The aim of the study is to determine the factors that contribute to the development of extremist movements and the factors that prevent extremism in a democracy. American scientists demonstrate that this phenomenon is pre-conditioned by both objective and subjective factors, a certain state of the political system, the citizens’ education level, the i...

Heritage is central to all humankind and to any community. Throughout millennia the distribution of cultural background, necessary skills were done by way of a tradition. In a tradition as well as in other developments of social life a historical link between new and old on-going process of continuum and consistency is true to take place. At present the subject of conservation and consolidation of the younger generation cultural values appears to be currently central more than ever. A young gentleman in a contempo...

In conditions of high uncertainty and growth of social tension there increases a need to acquire techniques for organizing one’s life in terms of time. Time competence acts as a leading component of the regulatory capabilities of a person. Time competence as a source for coping with difficult life situations and as a life potential allowing a person to act constructively is being widely studied at present. In this study, the authors present a structural and functional model of the time competence of an individual,...