Background
Boris was born on June 19, 1930, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
("...Parygin’s theory grounds on two basic concepts, two p...)
"...Parygin’s theory grounds on two basic concepts, two psychological phenomena are basic for his reasoning: personality and social interaction (Parygin 1965, 1971, 1999, 2010). His main assumptions are: – Personality, on the one hand, has a certain stability and cross-situational constancy, and on the other - it is changeable and fluid, depending on the situation; – Personality, on the one hand, is the procreation of social interactions in the course of socialization. On the other hand, the relations between personality and social surroundings are dialectical and contradictory, because personality has the greater autonomy, the higher the level of its development is. In social interactions personality pursues its own aims and follows its own value orientations. Parygin’s attention is focused primarily on the intra-personal contradictions in the course of personality development and on the inter-personal contradictions, which arise in the process of social interaction. His theoretical model of personality involves two different personality schemas: a "static" one and a "dynamic" one..."
1971
Boris was born on June 19, 1930, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
After school, he attended Saint Petersburg State University where he studied philosophy (1948—1953). In 1961 he defended a thesis about a problem of the social mood. In 1967 defended a doctoral theses Social Psychology as a science (questions of history, methodology, and theory).
After graduation, he was teaching philosophy at Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical Academy (1957–1962). In 1965, Saint Petersburg State University publishing house had released Parygin’s first monograph Social Psychology as a Science, which became a bibliographical rarity. In 1967, a revised edition of the monograph (15,000 copies) was translated into Czech, Bulgarian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
In 1971, Parygin’s work titled The Basics of Socio-Psychological Theory was published (20,000 printed copies). In his book, Parygin presented the concept of the main social and psychological problems, and first of all—the question of personality and human communication. This book drew a wide response in the scientific sphere of the Soviet Union and abroad. The monograph was republished in Germany (Cologne, 1975, 1982, Berlin, 1975, 1976) and in Japan (Tokyo, 1977).
