TITLE:
Social Inheritance in the Context of Psychology
AUTHORS:
Manol Manolov, Ivan Stoyanov, Zlatinka Georgieva, Petya Trifonova-Dimitrova
KEYWORDS:
Social Inheritance, Social Comparison, Transgenerational Transmission, Social Development, Family Influence
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.7 No.7,
July
15,
2019
ABSTRACT: The aim
of this report is to present the theoretical framework for studying the social
inheritance as a problem of psychology. The study is funded under Contract No
КП-06-M25/4 of 12.17.2018 concluded with the Research Fund of the Republic of
Bulgaria. The studies of social inheritance position it in the context of
sociology and economics. Thus, it is placed in the setting of confirmed
scientific facts. The main question that should be answered is about the exact
course of the processes that make it possible. The points of reference, set for
its study in the context of psychology, are assumed to be the facts in child
development, accompanied by the relevant characteristics on one hand. On the
other hand is the social nature of man, which is also the reason that makes the
existence and development of this phenomenon possible. Assuming that movement
is an essential element of development, we can derive the statement that major
importance should be given to processing of social facts in the context of human
individuality and returning them back into the social context, which results
also in an update of the social world and respectively—of the objective world.
This work lays the basis of the theoretical framework of social inheritance in
the context of sociology and derives the hypotheses that define the next steps
in the research.