Borshchenko V. Methodological justification of value preferences dynamics based on personal documents

In this thesis are found out and proved cognitive opportunities of autobiographical documents taken as source of investigation of value preferences of their authors and usefulness of documents array for objective quantitative generalization. Besides age identification of autobiographies authors was undertaken due to which they were reckon among "youth" social category and their value preferences typology was worked out. Further in this thesis they will be measured. To fulfill all this a range of empirical methods of analysis of autobiographical documents was grounded. Among them is content-analysis method that was procedure-adapted and its aim is to investigate the dynamics of youth value preferences. The amount of methods of dynamics demonstration and analysis such as moment and periodical (interval) dynamic rows was used in study of tendencies of value preferences development of youth during protracted period of time - seventeen years.