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Intended for a broad audience, Colonial Mentality in Africa explores the lingering effects of colonization in present day Africa. Despite the independence of all African nations from their former colonizers mental slavery still persists. This new work explores the social climate of Africa and the thriving ""colonial mentality"". The book explores issues such as matriarchy, religion, tradition and values, law, the influence of Islam, and government

HAVING STRIVED TO RECONCILE NUMEROUS CONTRADICTORY STRANDS OF THE SOVIET NATIONAL CHARACTER AND EXPLAIN SOVIET PEOPLE'S SOCIAL BEHAVIOR, THE AUTHOR INTRODUCES A TWO-LAYERED CONCEPT OF MENTALITY: A SET OF BASIC PERCEPTIONS AND ATTITUDES, AND A SET OF SECONDARY FEATURES, MANY OF WHICH HAVE BEEN HABITUALLY ASCRIBED TO THE RUSSIAN CHARACTER. IN THE AUTHOR'S VIEW, SECONDARY FEATURES CAN BE DERIVED FROM BASIC PERCEPTIONS AND ATTITUDES WHICH PRESENT A PERSON'S VIEW OF THE WORLD AND ARE VERY STABLE. IN ORDER TO SEPARATE THE BASIC PERCEPTIONS FROM THE SECONDARY FEATURES THE AUTHOR ANALYSES THE PROCESS OF SOCIALIZATION IN TWO CULTURES-THE SOVIET AND THE AMERICAN. HE IDENTIFIES MAIN CHANNELS OF INFLUENCE IN BOTH CULTURES THROUGH WHICH SOCIETY INTEGRATES A NEW MEMBER AND THREE CODES OF CONDUCT-BASED ON RELIGIOUS ETHICS, LAW, AND UNWRITTEN RULES THAT REGULATE BEHAVIOR IN A SOCIETY. THEY TURN OUT TO BE VERY DIFFERENT IN THE TWO COUNTRIES, EXPLAINING THE DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE IN ALL BASIC PERCEPTIONS OF AMERICANS AND SOVIETS.

The study considers the dependence of mentality on ethno-cultural conditions, the impact of the people's lifestyle on their mentality, the problem of a national character formation. The novelty of the study is that it gives a characteristic of the most multinational region of Russia – the Southern Federal District. Despite the natural, national, religious differences, living together in one territory contributed to the formation of a common mentality of the numerous peoples of southern Russia. It is emphasized that nowadays national value principles and orienteers gain special relevance as a way of obtaining mental stability which is based on spiritual experience of the previous generations. And at the same time, a globalist mentality is forming.

Introduction -- Theoretical framework for the research of social mentality -- "Mutual Construction" between Society and Individual in Formation of Social Mentality -- Formation mechanism and psychological effect of social mentality -- Structure and measurement indicator system of social mentality -- Risk perception and security and its measurements -- Group emotion and its measurement