Social expectations as a regulator of individual social behavior: theoretical research problems
The article deals with the issues related to the development of socio-philosophical concept of social expectations, as a regulator of individual social behavior in modern Russian society, and the conceptualization of different research approaches in the analysis of the problem. It is shown that social expectations as a social phenomenon and as a concept figure in various subject areas of social and humanitarian knowledge. The conclusion is that from theoretical point of study the clarification of the notion of social expectations, its definition in the context of different approaches, the place of the concept in the system of associated categories of social and humanitarian knowledge are emphasized. The identification of the problem field in the study of social expectations in social and humanitarian thought leads first of all, to the necessity to pay attention to the conceptual construct and the scientific logic of understanding this subject.