SOCIAL MATURITY – THE QUALITY OF PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

In the pedagogical analysis of the category «social maturity of the personality», we proceed from the thesis that the unity of the surrounding world and its evaluations are ultimately determined by its practical, transformative activity as an active subject of social processes.In the study of the effectiveness of the system of pedagogical influences as the main indicator of the personality holistic development, a category should appear that can be compared with the general influence of the social environment in relation to education. Such category is the social maturity of the personality. The social maturity of the personality includes the concept of «education». It reflects the connection with the content of the local education system of the educational institution.As a pedagogical phenomenon, the social maturity of the personality is revealed when its development is studied in connection with the content of objective and subjective factors.Practically all changes in the structure of the social maturity of the personality occur in a certain order in connection with the purposefulness of education. Therefore, researchers are not interested in the development of neoplasms in the personality structure, but their dependence on the system of pedagogical influences in unity with the factors of the social environment that determine them.In this regard, the social maturity of the personality is characterized primarily by those qualities that activate the self-regulation of social behavior and human activity in specific socio-historical conditions. Social maturity is the result of the formation of these personal qualities by means of education in the conditions of specific social environment and which is materialized in socially significant activities.The social maturity of the personality at each stage of his / her development reveals the ability to determine a certain ratio of self-determination, activity and responsibility in various life types. In fact, such processes appear on the basis of education, which in turn contribute to the development of the personality mental characteristics, lead to the emergence of new qualities in accordance with the organized influence of educators and the social environment factors.