Psychology and new methodologies: the epistemology of complexity

Abstract

In the context of socio-cultural approach to the analysis of science are discussed intellectual movements of new methodologies. The сhanges in the socio-cultural and cognitive situations require psychology the development of new methods, concepts and methodologies to adequately investigating the changing mentality in a complex changing world. Transdisciplinarity ideas, concepts of complex thinking, the epistemology of complexity are psychology generative environment for the production of new research approaches. In this context, the concept of a French researcher Edgar Morin, who justified seven principles of complex thinking; highlighted the fundamental aspects of complexity – holism and antinomy; showed significance in the analysis of the reality of subtle and not always obvious cultural factors, is discussed.