SOCIALIZATION AS A MECHANISM OF GENERATION OF PERSONAL VICTIMIZATION IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY

• Main Author: O. O. Andronnikova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kemerovo State University 2015-09-01
• Series: Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета
• Subjects: victimization, behaviour, personality, socialization, multicultural society
• Online Access: https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/1179

The paper is devoted to the issues of socialization in today‘s multicultural society. The study aims to perform the analysis of victimization as the result associated with morphogenetic social processes of globalization in the modern world. The paper provides an overview of the major changes associated with the transformation of modern society and reveals the victimizing influence of globalization on the Russian population and social institutions. The specificity of the psychological approach to the study of the impact of globalization on the world community is revealed. The description of a multicultural environment and its basic characteristics is provided. The complexity and diversity of the impact of the complex of reasons on the change and transformation of the structure of a modern multicultural society is shown. The paper outlines the main risks and negative side effects of globalization showing the influence of the main processes on the peculiarities of the society, changes in the structure and specificity of particular processes. The causes for the strengthening of some negative manifestations (separatism, isolation) and their impact on the society‘s increasing victimizing impact are highlighted.