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future of life and activity if the child succeeds in mastering knowledge, new skills,
then he/she believes in own strength, calm, but failures at school lead to the
appearance, and sometimes to consolidation of a sense of inferiority, disbelief in
strength, despair, loss of interest in learning. When feeling inferiority, the child

seems to be returning to the family again; family serves as protection if parents try
to help the child overcome the difficulties in learning.
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In adolescence (5 stage) a central form of identity is formed. Rapid
physiological growth, puberty, anxiety about how he/she looks to others, a need to
find a vocation, discover abilities – these are the challenges faced by a teenager.
These are the demands for self-determination from an adolescent set out by

society. A teenager successfully creates an integral form of his identity, finds his
"I," recognizes himself from others. In the opposite case, there is a diffusion of
identity. If a person finds himself, then identification is facilitated.
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At the 6 stage (youth) a person starts actual search for the companion of
life, close cooperation with people, strengthening of connections with a social
group. A person is not afraid of depersonalization – he/she confuses the identity
with other people. There is a feeling of closeness, unity, cooperation, intimacy with

certain people.
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The 7 (central) stage is an adult stage of personality development. Positive
symptoms of this stage are the following: a person invests in his/her favorite work
and caring for children, is satisfied with him/herself and his/her life. If there are no
objects of love (no favorite work, family, children), then a person is devastated,
there is stagnation, backwardness, psychological and physiological regress.
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After 50 years (8 stage) there is the formation of a complete form of
identity based on the entire path of personality development. Man rethinks all his
life, realizes his "I" in spiritual reflections on the years spent.

Questions

1. Describe the general specificity of the development of the modern culturological
stage.

2. What globalization processes are occurring in today's world culture?
3. What is the essence of the theory of modernization?
4. What intercultural misunderstandings are the basis of world conflicts of the

XXIth century?
5. What are the characteristics of a modern multicultural society?

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