If you go down from the scientific heights of freyds and yungas to sinful land, you can suddenly realize that everything around us is psychology. This simple pseudo-discovery was made by an American psychologist, saying that social psychology is just what people think about each other, how they influence and relate to each other.
In order to make sure of the "humanity" of the science of psychology, we will consider its basic functions.
Socio-diagnostic function
Psychology - it is not somewhere there, behind the heavy doors of the offices of crazy genius professors, but quite near. This is confirmed by the main function of psychology - diagnosis.
It consists in diagnosing, determining a person's problem, finding the source of the problem, that is, from where the legs grow from fear and not only. It can be an individual personality, social, group, ethnic, etc.
That is, the first function is to search for a reason why a person can not fully adapt to society.
Socialization
The next step after finding the source of all ills is correcting mistakes. This function of psychology helps a person to earn, create those social attitudes that for some reason did not develop in childhood, or formed with defects. At this stage, the ability to look at the world in a different way is formed, psychological immunity is developed - the stability of psychological stress.
Forecasts
Forecasts are the third function of psychology. First, we observe and compare
Prevention
Prophylactic function is a kind of introduction of psychological vaccinations to people so that in the future, when these or those problems arise, they have psychological immunity. Examples of such vaccinations can be seminars, lectures and group trainings, in which everyone gets the role of a certain psychotype and assimilates the norms of behavior in typical life collisions.