Ethnic psychology

Peoples play a decisive role in the historical development of mankind, but this development occurs unequally in different parts of the world. People from ancient times were interested in the peculiarities of behavior, morals, culture and thinking of various nations. The problem of national character and its features is investigated by a special branch of psychology - ethnic psychology.
One way or another, people’s perceptions of national peculiarities often do not go beyond the framework of everyday generalizations like “frivolous Frenchman”, “pedantic German”, “primish Englishman”, “smiling Japanese”. At the same time, the selection of characteristics used to describe the behavior of people of different nationalities is often vague, subjective, and often arbitrary. Taken as an absolute, it does not reveal, but often obscures the true nature of their writings - the national psychology.
A scientific approach to all aspects of social processes is needed, which is not conceived without careful consideration of the national-psychological characteristics of the population of a particular country, without in-depth study of national psychology. The term “national psychology” means the mental makeup of a nation and the branch of social psychology, which studies the national psychological characteristics of peoples, that is, essentially their mental makeup.

National psychological characteristics are formed both in ontogenesis and in phylogenesis, * which means they have a direct link with the general psychological problems of the development of the human psyche.

In Japan, for example, special research groups have been created to develop the problems of national psychology. Only at the Nogai University dozens of sociologists, psychologists, historians, ethnographers, economists, statisticians, theologians work on various aspects of national psychology.
The proposed manual sets out the general principles of the emergence and development of socio-psychological processes in ethnic communities. The general approach allows realizing concrete model constructions and studying the process not in real conditions, but as a model analysis, which significantly expands the possibilities of its study and more precise regulation of interethnic relations in practice.