Grishina, N.V.

Background. The history of the formation of social psychology is the history of the ongoing search for a methodologically reasonable and correct description of a person's relationship with the outside world. The changing realities of the modern world are transforming the strategies of human interaction with the reality, which creates the need to search for new languages ​​for describing both the surrounding world itself and human interaction with it.

Objective of the study. The article is devoted to the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Department of Social Psychology of Moscow State University, one of the most important directions in the work of which was the development of methodological problems. The desire to formulate and study the fundamental questions of the psychology of human "social being" has always been a distinctive feature of the activity of the Department of Social Psychology of Moscow State University. The subject of discussion in the article is the evolution of ideas about the relationship of a person with the outside world.

Results. The content of the problematic field of modern social psychology is connected with the tasks of developing ideas of a changing context and its cognition by a person. It is shown that the interest in the context of human life is common to a number of areas of modern psychological science. In modern personality psychology an interaction with the outside world is considered as a factor of dynamic functioning and development of personality. The problem fields of other areas of modern science, in particular existential psychology, also include the study of human relations with the outside world. Thus, the principle of contextual study and interpretation of psychological phenomenology acquires the status of a general methodological principle of psychological science

Conclusion. The main conclusion of the analysis is the statement that socio-psychological knowledge acquires the status of fundamental knowledge for a number of areas of modern psychological science and practice, the interaction of the problematic fields of social psychology and personality psychology, their common interest in the existence of a person in the modern world, in situational, life and existential contexts, creates prospects for the formation of an integral approach to the study of personality by modern psychological science.

Funding. The study has been supported by RNF project No. 22-28-00871, а on the topic «Target and situational determinants of the process of personality self-change».