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Omelchenko L. ISSUES OF GENDER PSYCHOLOGY IN S. BALEY'S SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE

Omelchenko Liudmyla, PhD, associating professor of Department of Social Work and Psychology, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Heroyiv Oborony st., 15, 03041 Kyiv, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.28925/2078-1687.2016.3.1316

Abstract

In the proposed article solved the originality of views of the famous Polish and Ukrainian psychologist S. Baley at the problem of psychological differences between men and women. The academician stressed that psychological properties neither of the individual nor in any way caused only sexual affiliation rights. Analyzing a wide range of contemporary scientific publications, he expressed his commitment to the O. Weininger concept. Based on the conceptual foundations of genetic psychology, as the mouthpiece of the principle of individual approach to psychological description of the individual, he denied the existence of psychological differences between men and women, that formed only by gender sign. Resorting to consider psychological differences in the emotional sphere, he first violates another important topic – why men actually psychic symptoms (for example, emotional balance) considered as standard. An objective examination of cognitive differences between men and women, including the consideration process, S. Baley emphasizes the impossibility of realization valid comparisons, because the differences in the properties of the attention of men and women caused by their social interest, not by their sexual identity. Famous Polish and Ukrainian academician considered gender discrimination of women by intellectual criterion unacceptable, considering the said non-scientific position. The problem of the domination of gender stereotypes and gender discrimination in the Ukrainian society can be solved by introducing the idea S. Baley about consideration of the individual characteristics of personality in determining her professional life.

Keywords:  androgyny;  psychological differences between men and women;  scientific heritage S. Baley.


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