CORRUPTION AS THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL PHENOMENON IN FORMATION OF THE PICTURE OF THE WORLD AT YOUTH
D.A. Kitova's article of "Representations of the personality about social manifestations of corruption" which was submitted for discussion in the form of the report at a seminar YIP RAHN "The topical directions of psychological researches" on February 26, 2019, has been discussed. It was noted that the author defines a psychological phenomenon of corruption as complicated and multilevel mental phenomenon. The studying of this phenomenon will allow describing the psychological reasons and consequences of corrupt behavior of society in general as well as to consider implicit ideas of various groups of the population about corruption and corrupt behavior as the social phenomenon reflecting social and economic and cultural and historical features of society. It was emphasized that the research had been directed to disclosure of "duality" of the nature of a phenomenon "corruption" in routine representations. In the research, it was suggested the creation of a social and psychological prototype of the corrupt official. His image allowed to allocate the specific psychological properties and the attitude towards the personality who is carrying out corruption activity. The results of the pilot research of the representations about corruption contributed to the expansion of understanding of social mechanisms of formation of corrupt behavior and the duality of the attitude towards him. The statement of this problem and attempt of an explanation of the existing contradictions in the formed picture of the world of youth causes fundamental relevance and need for further researches for this direction. The critical analysis of work shows prospects of use of a prototypical method which allows considering representation to the personality as the universal mechanism of social knowledge, behavior, and activity.