Methodological Challenges of Research on Problems of Socialization of Personality in the Context of the Russian-Ukrainian War

Relevance. Despite being traditional and important for psychological and sociological sciences, the problem of socialization remains vulnerable to criticism due to the apologetic nature of its theoretical and methodological foundations. Within the limits of traditional approaches, the success or failure of the process and results of socialization are considered, in fact, in the interests of the officially recognized state ideology with a corresponding set of ideals and values. This may be acceptable for countries with established democratic regimes, but it generates many insidious questions in the conditions of confrontation between societies with different civilizational reference points. This is the situation we have today in the context of the russian-Ukrainian war. Methodology is based on the discursive approach, which does not deprive the researcher of the right to evaluate socialization from his or her ideological position, but excludes the extrapolation of these evaluations to the psychological (procedural) content of socialization. According to this approach, the discourses in which socialization takes place, rather than its psychological content itself, can be evaluated from a moral or ideological perspective. This allows for a more realistic evaluation of the socialization experience of different societies, different countries and peoples, for comparison, etc. People’s participation in the reproduction and development of discourse can be traced by the results of monitoring all-Ukrainian representative surveys conducted by the Institute of Social and Political Psychology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since the early 1990s. Results. During this time, the territorial-state discourse has gradually formed as a leading one in Ukrainian society. Its value imperative is the attitude of state independence. About 80% of citizens believe that although there are many obstacles in the way of our statehood, Ukraine should still be independent.