Patlakh I. National mentality as an object of ethnopolitological analysis.

The thesis provides a detailed account of the theoretical-conceptual paradigm of national mentality, positivist and non-positivist discourses in the context of modern politological issues. Comparative-politological analysis of the methodological approaches to the investigation of national mentality has grounded the inter-discipline character of this phenomenon, necessity of the complex use of specific methods and conceptions of different sciences. It is shown that national mentality includes the complex of modifications of human psychology. Such structural levels as psychoenergetic sphere, archetype, attitude, stereotype are distinguished. The combinations of the typical signs of Ukrainian nation, which form the kernel of psychological features, are clarified. It is underlined that the analysis of national mentality gives an opportunity for scientific basis of the most effective methods of social management in transitive Ukrainian society.