Existential Experience of People, Survivors of Socioсultural Shocks as the Subject of Philosophy and Social Sciences

Abstract

The article justifies the importance of research in modern experience of existential modernization processes. A study of the subjective aspects of modernization, of the world of people’s life provides an opportunity to understand the developments of socio-cultural reality. The author considers indicators of psychosocial well-being of the population, which reveal the category of existential experience and show the degree of stability or instability of the individual in the life’s circumstances. The contemporary society updates people active, thinking, overcoming. In science it occurs a redefining the category subject, uncovering a multiplicity of options for the development of subjectivity. Such research turns are examples of responses to socio-cultural situation. An important task is to explore the realization of resources of human adaptation to the conditions of life, overcoming crisis situations of existence through the development of strong-willed, creative, communicative, moral qualities. These resources in their integrity, emphasize the concept of existential experience, expressing a personal path of becoming which man passed, relating his life with universal cultural values, resolving the fundamental problems existence. keywords: existential experience, modernization, socio-psychological state of the population, an existential crisis, values.