social representations

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that young people’s ideas of success characterize their sphere of purposes and aspirations and serve as a regulator for their concept of self-determination and self-realization in a rapidly and varyingly changing social reality. Success orientation includes an evaluative interpretation of the results achieved and attitudes towards them, which is conditioned by the need to solve personal and socially signifi cant tasks.

Given article is devoted research of social representations about envy and self-actualisation of the person of the student. The description of empirical research of representations about essencethe nature and the reasons of envy depending on level of self-actualisation of the personis given. 

The study demonstrates theoretical grounds of the study of representation of socio-political phenomena and problems among representatives of different ethnic groups.

Various sociocultural, value-related and normative contexts of individual and group existence are simultaneously supported by the postmodern society. Their mismatch is partly responsible for intra- and interpersonal conflicts and crises in the system of relations. Therefore, nowadays researchers stay focused on the problem of systematizing the subject’s ideas about other people and other social phenomena.