Gender policy at the institution of higher education: current problems and activities

Abstract

Background: Loneliness as a problem of personality existed at all times, but nowadays it`s becoming more important like a social problem. It is hard to find yourself and relize your identity because of steep conditions in all spheres of life of society. A state of loneliness, according to sociologists, is related with social factors and is appreciated as a comparative quality of person that is influenced by social reality. Purpose: to outline the main factors of social loneliness in modern society. Methods: Method of analysis, method of thoughts comparison, method of theoretical and empirical exploring of blighty and foreign sociologists were used. Results: According to sociologists, an integral features of loneliness are: the low level of social identity and interpersonal trust, faint adaptation of person to conditions in society, lack of pleasure in personal life, faith of individual that his behavior is determined by himself. Social loneliness can be related with imperfection of society, people’s insensibility, loss of close person or insulation. Conclusion: At the present historical stage social loneliness is growing up in geometric progression. Feeling of abandonment, needlessness and alienation actualize the problem of loneliness. Understanding of the loneliness phenomenon doesn’t have unique source of definition, but a common feature of all these theories is the fact, that this problem is formed by the influence of social factors, personal identity with other people and self-identification. Keywords: solitude, social loneliness, identification, self-identification, social exclusion.