Comparative analysis of passionarity and search activity of the individual

Man's passionarity can always be determined by the level of his activity. His efficiency, ideological and contagiousness testifies to the existence of such an individual of a high level of energy that does not change in the process of life activity, but with age becomes more focused and socially adapted. V.S. Rotenberg, the author of the theory of search activity, suggests that a comparative analysis of these concepts can reveal more differences in them than similarities, although many researchers in the field of passionarity almost equalized these concepts.

The similarity of the notions of "passionarity" and "search activity"

1) Passionarity and search behavior is directed by people to change the situation that does not suit them. Outwardly, both processes are indistinguishable, because A person acts as long as the situation does not change for the better. Comparative analysis showed that both processes begin to manifest themselves in the event of dissatisfaction with the course of life: under unfavorable climatic, domestic, political conditions.

2) For the manifestation of search activity, as well as for passionarity, a person must possess a number of additional personal qualities and character traits that give him the opportunity to be active: health, adaptability, risk appetite, constructive aggression, will and purposefulness.

The distinction between the concepts of "passionarity" and "search activity" according to VS Rotenberg

Comparative analysis of these concepts was carried out by the author in the application to the psychological features of man, whereas in general the concept of passionarity was considered by L. N. Gumilev more broadly - in application to all living individuals capable of absorbing energy from the environment. Studies of his followers are common both in the field of human life and animals. V.S. Rotenberg is one of those authors who study the passionate person, his social activity.

1) Passionarity is inherited from a passionate parent to their children. True, the passionarity gene is recognized as recessive, i.e. Dying, and it can be inherited only by a quarter of the heirs. Passionary explosion, when there are many such people, arises in situations of threat to the existence of an ethnos due to mutation of genes. Search activity appears in people and animals with high brain development in the process of life and the need to adapt to the environment.

2) A comparative analysis of concepts on the basis of risk propensity for the most adaptive recognized individuals with the manifestation of search activity. Passionarians in the process of achieving the goal of activity are ready to go on self-sacrifice, i.e. Behave antiadaptively: they perform heroic deeds, go to the fire for the sake of the idea or die during the hostilities. Search activity may also be risky, but humans and animals behave cautiously in a situation of real danger.

3) The focus of search activity is always traced in the search for something new, in achieving the goal and avoiding danger. The direction of the passionary leader's activity is the achievement of higher goals, ideals and social values.

The main difference that can be traced in all the signs that the comparative analysis has revealed is the lack of value of one's own life in the passionary, which does not fit into the theory of search behavior of any individual. The idea of realizing the search activity is life-affirming, so passionarians with the presence of their search activity are capable of preserving their lives and changing the direction of activity in case of a threat to their vitality.

Comparative analysis of sites With a description of passionarity, revealed a discrepancy between the authors' opinions about the sources of passionarity and human search activity, but researchers agree that search activity is a property of all living beings, and passionarians as well.