cultural-historical psychology

In article psychosocial characteristics of the big cultural systems are considered: humorous, official and information. On the basis of the psychological analysis the basic psychological characteristics of corresponding types of cultures are des cribed. Article also contains the description of results of research of socially-psychological features of authors graffiti with various cultural-historical markers of their graphic activity.

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.