METHODOLOGICAL SUPPORT FOR STUDYING THE VALUE-MEANING SPHERE OF THE INDIVIDUAL

Abstract

The article is devoted to the characteristics of methodological support for studying the value-meaning sphere of the individual, the methodological principles of the formation of the value-meaning sphere of the individual, which are determined by the provisions of the post-classical methodology of scientific knowledge, the philosophy of existentialism, humanistic psychology, psychology of activity, anthropological and axiological psychology, interval epistemology. It is noted that the research methodology of the value-meaning sphere of the individual is based on the prominent ideas of the post-nonclassical methodology of scientific knowledge with special emphasis on the value and meaning aspects of the world of human existence, the formation and development of the individual, the methodology of constructivism, which determines the consideration of the individual as a creative subject in the context of one’s own life activity; provisions of such methodological approaches as systemic, active, subject, synergistic, phenomenological, hermeneutic, which are considered as complementary (mutually complementary).

The article presents an analysis of the methods commonly used in the study of the values of meanings, and offers a toolkit for the study of the value-meaning sphere of the individual according to the results obtained in the given study.