ქართული კულტურის ფსიქოლოგიური ესკიზი
Psychological Outline of Georgian Culture

Summary/Abstract: Culture is considered as genetic memory of a nation, since it abundantly projects the historical way of the nation, its worldview, value orientations, spiritual potential, character and behavior, etc. Culture, as the most national phenomenon, is at the same time an existential value system. It exists as a macrophenomenon and is manifested in each human being and ethnos, in the form of its various characteristics, including psychological determinants. Thus, without the psyche, there exists no culture. All this, in turn, is directly related to the subject of our scientific research, i.e. - the Policy of Georgian Culture, the aim of which is to study not only culture, but also psychological characteristics and cultural requirements of its creator – the human being. Hence, there is an organic correlation between cultural policy and culture, as well as its psychological determinants and without considering the outcome of its research, it is impossible to develop an adequate cultural policy for the purpose of cultural management and its proper implementation. Following the logical argumentation of this micro-theme, we have reviewed modern methods of cultural research that have been approved in cultural psychology. Initially, we drew attention to the fact that this relatively new field of science - cultural psychology - was formed at the intersection of ethnology and cultural anthropology. The subject of cultural psychology is to define relation between culture and the psyche; psychological analysis of cultural phenomena; study of the cultural psychology of groups united by ethnic unity. Corresponding study has acquired a special relevance in the era of globalization and more notably, due to the threat of homogenization, assimilation, degradation and disappearing of cultural characteristics facing the so-called small nations. This, in turn, made our attempt - to define such “small nations” - Georgians and their cultural psychological outline - more relevant.

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