Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: The article contains a brief review of the concept «context» which is gaining its place among the key concepts in modern theoretical and empirical psychology.A comprehensive analysis of scientific literature leads the authors to distinguish two complementary conceptions of context -structural (which regards a fragment of a text as a semantic system) and functional (which treats it as a mental sensegenerating mechanism).The authors suggest an understanding of mentality as a recursive-contextual phenomenon, where each fragment of its subject matter exists in the context of other fragments -parallel, preceding or ensuing.Such understanding may form a basis for the contextual approach in psychology.
Institution: Sholokhov Moscow State University for Humanities
Language: English
Subfield: General Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2331664229