PROSPECTS OF CROSS CULTURAL RESEARCH OF THE PROCESS OF ETHNIC INDIVIDUALISM

Abstract

The article is devoted to the method of repertory grids, which can be an adequate method of studying the process of ethnic individuation. It allows us to identify elements associated with the ethnic unconscious, in particular — the archetypal images. The constructs used by subjects related to the gender of respondents and the stages of ethnic individuation, and their ethnicity, they make it possible to create a monopolar matrix of the semantic differential and to compare constructs in representatives of different ethnic groups.

In the modern world, the migration activity of the population is spreading. Labor migrants, internally displaced persons, refugees lose ties with their roots, experience difficulties in assimilation and adaptation in other countries. In them simultaneously there are two oppositely directed processes — inculturation in another country and unconscious process of ethnic individuation. As applied to this, we face the problem of studying how a particular person perceives and perceives the complex world of the archetypes of the ethnic unconscious, other people and himself, as an integral system of representations and sensations of a particular person is formed in the process of adaptation to inhabitation in another country. An additional problem is the search for techniques that would be adequate for speakers of different languages and cultures.

The scheme of research of the ethnic unconscious and the process of ethnic individuation, consisting of three stages: the analysis of folklore and mythological sources, the application of the amplification method, the use of repertoire grids, it can be considered quite successful to constructs used by subjects related to the gender of respondents and stages of ethnic individuation. They make it possible to create a monopolar matrix of the semantic differential, specific for representatives of each culture. Such a plan will allow us to study the level of subjective closeness with the archetypes of one’s own and another’s people.