Author(s)

Manol Manolov, Ivan Stoyanov, Zlatinka Georgieva, Petya Trifonova-Dimitrova

Department of Psychology, “St. Cyril and St. Methodius”, University of Veliko Tarnovo, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.

The aim of this report is to present the theoretical framework for studying the social inheritance as a problem of psychology. The study is funded under Contract No КП-06-M25/4 of 12.17.2018 concluded with the Research Fund of the Republic of Bulgaria. The studies of social inheritance position it in the context of sociology and economics. Thus, it is placed in the setting of confirmed scientific facts. The main question that should be answered is about the exact course of the processes that make it possible. The points of reference, set for its study in the context of psychology, are assumed to be the facts in child development, accompanied by the relevant characteristics on one hand. On the other hand is the social nature of man, which is also the reason that makes the existence and development of this phenomenon possible. Assuming that movement is an essential element of development, we can derive the statement that major importance should be given to processing of social facts in the context of human individuality and returning them back into the social context, which results also in an update of the social world and respectively—of the objective world. This work lays the basis of the theoretical framework of social inheritance in the context of sociology and derives the hypotheses that define the next steps in the research.

Social Inheritance, Social Comparison, Transgenerational Transmission, Social Development, Family Influence

Manolov, M. , Stoyanov, I. , Georgieva, Z. and Trifonova-Dimitrova, P. (2019) Social Inheritance in the Context of Psychology. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 7, 50-59. doi: 10.4236/jss.2019.77005.