Educational Acmeology. Developmental Psychology
ISSN 2304-9790 (Print)
ISSN 2541-9013 (Online)


cultural-historical psychology

The Analysis of Approaches to Mentality Studying in a Psychological Science

The analysis of the historical and psychological literature has allowed to reveal a number of approaches to definition of concept «mentalition» and «mentality». Works of the Moscow psychological school represent attempts to consider integrated mechanisms of mentality and its communication with generalising socially-psychological characteristics of the person and share on two directions socially-psychological categories, such as the way of life, social representations, etc.