The sociology student’s communicative personality in learning in the pandemic discourse

Abstract

The article studies the transformation of the communicative personality in terms of learning space digitalization and formation of the main components of the sociology students’ communicative competence in the transition to distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis of a communicative personality is performed. In-depth interviews and group interviews were used as data collection methods. The interviewees are students of the Faculty of Sociology of MSU attended their graduation courses in full-time and distantly. The interview guide is represented by questions corresponding to individual parameters of the communicative personality. The empirical data analysis method is axial coding. The specificity of individual characteristics of the students’ communicative personality, remotely learning the profession of a sociologist, was revealed. The article highlights the motivation for entering the educational communicative process, the absence of the cognitive aspect’s direct influeence on the new education format, and the transformation of ethical component of communicative personality.