ON THE QUESTION OF STUDYING THE PHENOMENON OF FAVORITISM

Abstract

The article considers favoritism as a type of social connection. As a social and cultural phenomenon, it permeates all aspects of relations where there is an organization of people, a social field of activity. Some approaches to the methodology of the analysis of the favoritism phenomenon are suggested. Favoritism is seen as a social institution of society. Favoritism, as institution-establishment, institution-organization and super-collective education, serves to create an orderly informal structure of the community, state institutions, and collectives. The notion of favoritism is applied to the consideration of labor conflicts, and accordingly favoritism has always been considered at the socio-psychological level. However, real events in the Middle East, in Ukraine, reveal the fact that favoritism is seen in the interaction of the leading countries and satellite countries. A number of new large publications show that favoritism acts on an internal, institutional level. The Institute of favoritism is manifested in the role structure of the group. The role of temporary favorites, as well as companions and followers of the leader in large and small groups in social space and time is analyzed; Symbiosis “leader-favorite” is revealed on the empirical level. An indicator for identifying the function of the favorite was his assessment of role groups and groups of the type of moral consciousness. By differentiating the phenomenon of favoritism, the society can in the future determine the boundaries of this phenomenon legally, and the process from the spontaneous will gain the probability of transition to a rationally managed one.