Raschetina S.A.
RESEARCH METHOD IN THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL AND PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY ^{[№ 3 ' 2020]}
Abstract: The purpose of the research, implemented under the RFFI grant, is to analyze the structure of social and pedagogical activities aimed at harmonizing the child’s relationships in the immediate social environment in unstable conditions of society. It is emphasized that this type of activity was updated at the stage of the country’s entry into two opposite economic processes: market and information, which resulted in the growing processes of spontaneous socialization and value orientation of the younger generation, widely represented in the real and virtual world of the child. It is shown that in conditions of instability and rapid rates of social changes, the spatial and temporal characteristics of social and pedagogical activity change: the space of children’s problems related to socialization and value orientation expands, and the time for solving problems narrows. Under these conditions, a special role is played in the structure of social and pedagogical activity by a set of research competencies focused on analyzing, on the one hand, children’s problems, on the other hand, themselves as the carrier of a way to solve them. The article emphasizes that currently there is a methodological chaos in science, that there is a need to group existing approaches, and presents one of the possible variants of their grouping: classical (systemic), non-classical (anthropological), post-non-classical (discursive), each of which is aimed at a qualitatively peculiar analysis of the current state of society and the position of a person (child) in it. It is shown that mastering the methods presented in these approaches acts as a significant reserve of social and pedagogical activity, which allows solving problems of socialization and value orientation of children and finding ways to solve them.