Ideology as a Subject of Research in the Works of Alexander Bogdanov (to the 150th Anniversary of his Birth)

Abstract

The article discusses debatable issues of ideology, the relevance of their discussion not only for social science, but also for modern psychology. The ultimate goal of the author is to carry out a historical and psychological reconstruction of the doctrine of ideology in the work of A.A. Bogdanov (Malinovsky) (1873–1928). The focus is on Bogdanov's concept of ideology as part of the culture of society, its forms, phenomena, genesis, functions, variability, research method, possibilities of influence and prediction, which are considered from the standpoint of “General organizational science — tectology” and “philosophy of living experience”. The views of A. Bogdanov can be useful not only to modern representatives of many social sciences, but, first of all, to social psychologists studying macropsychological problems, specialists in the field of historical psychology, as well as historians of Russian psychology at the beginning of the 20th century.