TY - JOUR

T1 - The Long Road

T2 - The fiftieth anniversary of the first national department of social psychology

AU - Sventsitskiy, A. L.

AU - Gurieva, S. D.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 Psikhologicheskii Zhurnal. All rights reserved.

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - The present article describes the history of the emergence, formation and development of one of the first in the national psychological science - the Department of Social Psychology that had created in the Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) University in 1968. The head of department was E.S. Kuzmin who identified the main areas of research activities: the development issues of history, theory, methodology and methods of social psychology, the actual socio-psychological problems, mainly in the field of life of production teams. In the next years, the research subjects of the department were substantially expanded. Research results were reflected in a number of collective monographs and individual works published as in national publications and abroad. At the same time, the professional training was improved in framework of social and psychological specialization. At present, the department is the largest scientific and pedagogical center of social psychology in the North-West of our country. The department directs the efforts to the training of specialists, corresponding to the needs of our society.

AB - The present article describes the history of the emergence, formation and development of one of the first in the national psychological science - the Department of Social Psychology that had created in the Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) University in 1968. The head of department was E.S. Kuzmin who identified the main areas of research activities: the development issues of history, theory, methodology and methods of social psychology, the actual socio-psychological problems, mainly in the field of life of production teams. In the next years, the research subjects of the department were substantially expanded. Research results were reflected in a number of collective monographs and individual works published as in national publications and abroad. At the same time, the professional training was improved in framework of social and psychological specialization. At present, the department is the largest scientific and pedagogical center of social psychology in the North-West of our country. The department directs the efforts to the training of specialists, corresponding to the needs of our society.

KW - Applied research

KW - Expert

KW - Formation and development of social psychology department

KW - Scientific work

KW - Social psychology of teams and groups

KW - Theory and methodology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85062677090&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.31857/S020595920000842-2

DO - 10.31857/S020595920000842-2

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85062677090

VL - 40

SP - 84

EP - 93

JO - Психологический журнал

JF - Психологический журнал

SN - 0205-9592

IS - 1

ER -