About Boris Parygin
Boris Dmitrievitch Parygin was a Soviet and Russian philosopher, sociologist and one of the founders of social psychology and member of a wide range of international academies. Parygin was a specialist in a sphere of philosophical and psychological problems of social psychology – its history, methodology, theory and praxeology. In 1965, Saint Petersburg State University publishing house had released Parygin's first monograph, Social Psychology as a Science, which became a bibliographical rarity. In his book, Parygin presented the concept of the main social and psychological problems and, first of all, the question of personality and human communication. There he created the laboratory of the social and psychologic studies and social psychology faculty which was the first one in the Soviet Union.
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