Psychology of Individualism and Collectivism

Course: Psychology

Structural unit: Faculty of Psychology

Title
Psychology of Individualism and Collectivism
Code
ДВС.3.09.02
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
6 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
LO3. To search information from different sources for solving professional tasks including using information and communication technologies. LO4. To elaborate one's professional position, to make independent conclusions based on the results of own research and analysis of publications. LO5. To select and use: valid and reliable psychological research and assessment methods (tests, questionnaires, projective techniques etc.); techniques of psychological help. LO9. To propose own solutions of psychological problems in a professional context, to argue own point of view. LO10. To formulate logically own position in comprehensive way, discuss, defend, modify statements according to cultural characteristics of the partner.
Form of study
External form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. To know the basic concepts of general and social psychology, patterns and styles of communication and interaction, mechanisms and means of socio-psychological influence 2. To be able to operate with the conceptual and categorical apparatus of general and social psychology, to be guided in methods of psychological research, to carry out the psychological analysis of individual and collective consciousness and behavior 3. To have the skills of theoretical analysis, planning and implementation of socio-psychological research, communication skills for the presentation of one’s own intelligence, discussions and group work
Course content
The purpose of the discipline is the general theoretical preparation of students to understand the psychological nature of individualism and collectivism, mastering the means of analysis and correction of relevant personal and communicative traits. The first module is devoted to the study of general theoretical and methodological principles of psychological understanding of individualism and collectivism. The second one considers the representation of the psychological content of individualism and collectivism in personality types, styles of activity and communication, ideological preferences and economic behavior of citizens. The third module covers individualism and collectivism in the context of social ideas and ethnic civilization ideologies of modern Ukrainian society
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Bondarenko O. V. Priorities of the Ukrainian mentality: individualism or collectivism? Historical aspects of problem solving. A New Paradigm. 2001. Issue 22. Pp. 70-85. Vasiutynskyi V. Psychological Truth about Individualism and Collectivism. Kyiv: Millennium, 2016. 138 p. Hrabovska S. The phenomenon of "demanding" behavior: socio-psychological analysis. Socio-humanitarian Problems of Human. 2005. № 1. Pp. 84-91. Zlobina O.H. Personality as a Subject of Social Change. Kyiv: Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2004. 400 p. Keiselman (Dorozhkin) V. R. Faces of Altruism. Kyiv: Phoenix, 2016. 320 p. Meizhys I. A. Individualism or collectivism? Socio-psychological view of the history and political culture of Ukraine. Social Psychology. 2006. № 6. Pp. 47-59. Sliusarevskyi M. M. Individual and super-individual in the mental states of society. Psychological Prospects. 2003. № 4. Pp. 153-161.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, seminar, control work, individual work
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral presentations during the seminar, control work are evaluated. The maximum number of points for work during the semester is 100, the minimum is 60. The test is based on the results of work during the semester and does not provide additional assessment activities for successful students
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Vadym Oleksandrovych Vasyutynskyy
Department of Social Psychology
Faculty of Psychology

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Social Psychology
Faculty of Psychology