Concept of Adaptation: Two debating points
According to the author, due to the ongoing ecological crisis the problem of the human adaption to the changing living conditions is getting vital. However its analysis is hard to conduct as the scientists still have no common opinion on the number of major questions related to the very definition of adaptation and its types. The notion of adaptation is interdisciplinary. The interpretation of its essence, its definition and description depend on the approach to the elaboration of the adaptation problem in different sciences. Thus the discrepancy of its analysis is inevitable. The author's research is devoted to the explanation of the specifics of the psychological adaptation of the people born and constantly living in ecologically troubled areas. In the article the author explains its own position on two points. If it is obligatory to distinguish between adaptation and the quality of being adapted, and what time is necessary for adaptation and what time is needed to go through it. On the first issue the author agrees with the necessity of distinguishing some concrete issues of the problem field of adaptation but follow in many others researchers' opinion in his work the author uses the common concept of adaptation. On the second issue it is stipulated the adaptation is the continuous and common process and cannot be completed.