Personal security in cultural perspective

Abstract

The authors of the present study examine the mechanisms regulating individual behavior under conditions of difficult and emergency situations. Instinctive and conscious activities, which are used to meet the need for security, are interpreted by invoking a category of personal knowledge and is an important instrument to deal with the requirements of the situation. In the personality structure, these are regulatory standards and mechanisms for assessing and evaluating objectives and ways of subjects' actions. Attention is also drawn to the social relations of the individual and socio-cultural conditions of constructive behaviors and behaviors which constitute acts of manipulation. This is particularly important in the process of personal security interpretation and application and strictly connected with the human security concept related to the phenomenological and existential interpretation of subjects' social relations. In the security context the authors suggest the need to consider the issue of values involved in the ability to assess relationships with other people.