Editorial

Abstract

Dear readers!

We are pleased to announce the release of the regular number 2/2024 of our multi-disciplinary publication, in which we continue to publish the results of empirical studies, analytical reviews and scientific intelligence devoted to the study of current problems of socialization and human development. In this issue, convincing articles are presented, which, based on sociocultural methodology, highlight important issues for modern humanitarian science and social practice.

On the pages of this magazine, you can read the resolution and key reports of the 9th International scientific and practical conference "Socialization and socialization of personality in the conditions of modern society" - "METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF RESEARCHING THE PROBLEMS OF SOCIALIZATION OF PERSONALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR" by Mykola Slyusarevsky, director of the Institute of Social and Political Psychology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine . The scientist emphasizes that the problem of socialization remains vulnerable to criticism due to the apologetic nature of its theoretical and methodological foundations, since traditionally the success or failure of the process and the results of socialization are considered, in fact, in the interests of an officially recognized state ideology with a corresponding set of ideals and values. The methodology of the discursive approach proposed by the speaker does not deprive the researcher of the right to evaluate socialization from his ideological positions, but excludes the extrapolation of these evaluations to the psychological (procedural) content of socialization.

RESOLUTION

The 9th International Scientific and Practical Conference "Socialization and Resocialization of the Personality in Modern Society" (SRPCMS-24) November 14 - 15, 2024

1. The Ninth International Scientific and Practical Conference on the Problems of Socialization and Resocialization of Modern Man united in the space of public communication more than 170 participants from 9 countries of the world (Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Norway, Germany, Poland, USA, and the Czech Republic), once again confirming the relevance of the issues of socio-cultural development of man not only for domestic, but also for world science. The mixed format chosen for the conference, using multimedia tools, provided domestic and foreign scientists and practitioners, teachers and students with an interested discussion of the impact of adverse military-political and dynamic eco-social conditions on the mental health and subjective well-being of Ukrainian citizens suffering from war, allowed them to strengthen their own resilience and expand their understanding of self-help practices and psychological assistance to victims of military actions and secondary traumatization in the conditions of the ongoing war in Ukraine, and also clearly experienced the real efforts that various scientists of the civilized world are making in solidarity to bring peace and victory to Ukraine.
2. The wide range of issues discussed at the conference on the theory and practice of educational, political, family, professional and military socialization, the peculiarities of the acculturation of displaced persons and their social adaptation in new living conditions, the problems of resocialization of veterans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and their family members made obvious to the participants not only the importance of further developing practices and technologies of psychological assistance to the affected population, but also the relevance of the scientific search for ways to consolidate Ukrainian society, involved in a long-term hybrid war, and the successful integration into such a society of people with different pre-war, war and post-war experience in order to prevent the development of centrifugal social trends and the growth of social tension in Ukraine.
3. Theoretical-methodological and scientific-practical approaches to the development of the issues of socialization and human development, presented in the reports and messages of the conference participants, allow us to state the importance of taking into account, when studying the problems of the development of modern man, an understanding of the essence and mechanisms of his socialization and resocialization as general predictors of personality development, focusing on the importance for such development of the growth of the specific weight of modern permanent education as an institution of directed socialization, aimed at the development by means of psychoeducation of a self-sufficient personality, who will be able to rationally, creatively and tolerantly build his life path in an information society of constantly growing opportunities.
4. The organizational and activity game “Socio-psychological support of the work of Veteran Development Centers (VDC)” held within the conference space, in which veterans, members of their families and families of deceased soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, scientists, psychologists, social workers, military chaplains, representatives of the public sector, administrations of operating Ukrainian VDCs and other interested service providers to users of such centers, made it possible to inventory the requests of potential clients and resources of subjects of ensuring the work of VDCs, within the framework of the regulatory and legal support currently in force in Ukraine, to determine the main tasks of the productive organization of the activities of such institutions at Ukrainian HEIs, to outline the contours of the capabilities of a modern higher education institution to comprehensively provide for the needs of post-traumatic recovery, personal growth and successful reintegration of demobilized soldiers and members of their families into the modern war-torn Ukrainian society.
5. The participants decided to hold the next (10th) international conference on the problems of socialization, resocialization and development of the human personality on November 17-18, 2026 in Kyiv.

November 15, 2024.                                            Prof. Olena VLASOVA