STAGES OF SOCIAL ADAPTATION: PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS

Abstract

The article explores the process of social personal adaptation. The research is aimed at structuring the process of social adaptation for further formation of general methodology of research and formation of the mechanism of its management in specific conditions. The authors pose that specific features of adaptation as special ontologic form of personal life are expressed in hetero ontologic character that assumes three parts: natural, psychological and social. The authors represent definition of social adaptation reviewed as a process of solving the contradiction that arises between personality and society and results in development and socialization by means of experience received. The authors highlight the main components of the structure of social adaptation process as follows: adaptation resources (adaptability), adaptive behavior and adjustment. The main criteria of adaptability are defined as cognitive, axio-cultural, communicative and behavioural ones. The paper outlines the strategies of adaptive behavior: active, passive and active and passive. It is shown that constructive vigorous adaptive activity always assumes personal growth and development through expansion and increase of level of search, informative activity, mobilization of all adaptive resources on a solution. The authors describe subjective and objective criteria of adjustment caused by adaptation process. The demarcation of concepts of adaptability, adaptive behavior and adjustment allows to avoid semantic confusion and substitution of concepts of research practice of scientists. Structuring of adaptation process allows applying new methodology and the new ways of the mechanism of precision management of social adaptation.