Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Corruption as a Psychological Phenomenon
Abstract
The article presents a generalized analysis of the existing theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of corruption in psychological science. Analyzed critically foreign experience of scientific research on the phenomenon of corruption in the space of psychology. The main epistemological problems of the study of the psychology of corruption are highlighted. These include the definition of the subject matter, principles and empirical methods. Possible solutions to these problems are outlined. It has been reported that it is advisable to choose the subject of the research as a category "subject". It is argued that the initial provisions of the analysis of this problem should be the basic methodological principles of domestic and foreign psychology: the principle of determinism, system, unity of consciousness and activity, development, historicism. The theoretical analysis of the concept of "corrupt behavior" should be carried out on the basis of the basic concepts of leading psychological schools: psychoanalytic, cognitive, behavioral, humanistic, cross-cultural psychology, paradigm of dialectical psychology, psychological theory of activity, concept of social behavior, theory of social attitudes of personality, social and psychological group theories and the like. They allow you to define a specific subject of research and its conceptual apparatus. The generalization of the available scientific studies of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the analysis of corruption as a psychological phenomenon suggests the following: today the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of the psychology of corruption are in an active stage of development. They do not have a permanent, generally accepted form in the scientific community; existing approaches to the definition of the subject of the study of the psychology of corruption in the foreign space are centered around the category of "personality". Separate features of "corruption-related personality" are highlighted. This significantly limits the subject area of this problem; the lack of development of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the analysis of corruption as a psychological phenomenon leads to the locality and superficiality of the applied empirical research.
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