Preface

The third issue of the journal “Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology” opens with articles devoted to theoretical and methodological problems of psychology, the development of which is of particular importance for modern psychology.

At the beginning of the section, an article by M. S. Guseltseva, one of the famous Russian methodologists, “Ongoing transformations: Human, world, methodology” is published, which discusses the main trends in the transformation of the modern world and research strategies for their study. Changes in modern reality are one of the most discussed topics of recent decades, the real and possible consequences of these changes are described, conceptual models are proposed and further trends of changes are predicted. As the discussed issues expand, the lack of a relevant methodological and terminological framework for describing modern transformations becomes more and more obvious, as Guseltseva points out in her article. New research strategies require their development in the format of inter- and transdisciplinarity. Based on the analysis of methodological problems of studying trends in the transformation of the modern world, Guseltseva concludes that the focus of applying intellectual forces in achieving the relevance of their description should be two movements: (1) from liquid modernity to liquid methodology; (2) from a changing world to a changing researcher. The presented publication will be of interest to a wide range of psychologists working on human issues in the modern world.