Psychology of mass behavior
Course: Economics and Economic Policy
Structural unit: Faculty of Economics
            Title
        
        
            Psychology of mass behavior
        
    
            Code
        
        
            ВК 2.2.3 (П3)
        
    
            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
        
        
            4 Semester
        
    
            Number of ECTS credits allocated
        
        
            3
        
    
            Learning outcomes
        
        
            PLO 6. To use professional arguments to transmit information, ideas, problems and ways of their solving to professionals and non-professionals in the field of economic activity. 
PLO 9. To realize the main features of the modern world and national economy, the institutional structure, directions of social, economic and foreign economic policy of the state.
PLO 13. To identify sources and understand the methodology of determination and methods for obtaining socio-economic data, collect and analyze the necessary information, calculate economic and social indicators.
PLO 21. To be able to think abstractly, apply analysis and synthesis to identify the key characteristics of economic systems of various levels, as well as the peculiarities of their subjects' behavior.
PLO 22. To demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in new situations, in working with new objects and in uncertain conditions.
        
    
            Form of study
        
        
            Full-time form
        
    
            Prerequisites and co-requisites
        
        
            Know the theoretical foundations and leading areas of socio-political disciplines and their intersection with the economy; 
be able to search for the necessary information to analyze and critically evaluate it; formulate public inquiries and relate them to their professional activities; 
have the skills to work with the research and reference apparatus of libraries; basic methods of collecting and interpreting the facts of social reality; establishing causal relationships; different ways of argumentation, and presentation of information to influence the recipient, conducting discussions.
        
    
            Course content
        
        
            The purpose of this discipline - mastering the basic psychological patterns and functions of mass group consciousness; deepening ideas about the nature of socio-economic behavior and its motives, factors, and mechanisms; as well as methods of its study and management.
Summary
The discipline provides:
1)	development of professional competence in the field of mass and collective social phenomena;
2)	acquisition of methodologies of socio- psychological and psychological-economic research, skills and abilities; the practical use of modern socio- psychological methods and technologies in economics; 
3)	 formation of socio-psychological analysis of economic phenomena and processes, to implement the acquired knowledge to solve the problems of modern economic policy.
        
    
            Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
        
        
            1. Васютинський В. Психологічні виміри спільноти.  К., 2010.
2. Найдьонова Л. А. Медіапсихологія: основи рефлексивного підходу.  Кіровоград, 2015
3.	Нові медіа в сучасному суспільстві: культурологічний вимір: монографія / В. М. Судакова, М. Ю. Наумова та ін .К . : Інститут культурології НАМ України, 2017.
4.	Орбан-Лембрик  Л. Е. Соціальна психологія великих стихійних груп і масових явищ: Навч.-метод. посібн.  Івано-Франківськ, 2005.
6.	Слюсаревський М. М., Хазратова Н. В. Соціальна психологія.– Навч. посібн. Львів: Вид-во Львівської політехніки, 2019.
        
    
            Planned learning activities and teaching methods
        
        
            lecture, seminar, individual work, debate, summary
        
    
            Assessment methods and criteria
        
        
            Oral answers and additions during seminars and discussions, analytical reports, summaries, creative individual work, tests.
The control is carried out according to the modular rating system, which provides for a two-level assessment of the mastered material, including assessment of theoretical training
(50%) and assessment of practical training (50%). The final assessment is conducted in the form of a test, which is conducted in the form of an oral examination on the subject of the course and the implementation of a creative individual task, the maximum score is 20 points. The minimum number of points added to the semester - 12 points (60% of the maximum number of points allocated for the test).
        
    
            Language of instruction
        
        
            Ukrainian
        
    Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
                    Pavlo
                    Dmytrovych
                    Frolov
                
                
                    Department of Social Psychology 
Faculty of Psychology
            Faculty of Psychology
Departments
The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline
                        Department of Social Psychology
                    
                    
                        Faculty of Psychology