Adamyants, T. Z. (2023), “Smart People for Smart Cities (in the light of the ideas of T. M. Dridze)”, Research Result. Sociology and management, 9 (1), 17-26. DOI: 10.18413 ... Adamyants, T. Z. (2023), “Smart People for Smart Cities (in the light of the ideas of T. M. Dridze)”, Research Result. Sociology and management, 9 (1), 17-26. DOI: 10.18413/2408-9338-2023-9-1-0-2.ISSN 2408-9338DOI 10.18413/2408-9338-2023-9-1-0-2РИНЦ: https://elibrary.ru/contents.asp?id=53744624Posted on site: 06.04.23Текст статьи на сайте журнала URL: http://rrsociology.ru/journal/annotation/3037/ (дата обращения 06.04.2023)AbstractThe article deals with the scientific heritage of T.M. Dridze, one of the directions of which (the semiosociopsychology paradigm of social communication) contains methodological and methodological foundations for the mass development of understanding skills in the field of social communication. Such an opportunity seems to the author of the article relevant in the light of the development strategies of the so-called smart cities: people living in them (as well as all those who live outside them) should also improve their level of mentality, not only in the field of technical and technological, but also in the field of social communication: our compatriots should not only have the skills to control machines, mechanisms and electronic devices, not only have the information accumulated in memory, but also be able to navigate in a complex and multidirectional modern socio-cultural environment. The use of scientific developments by T.M. Dridze allows the development of skills for understanding latent meanings in perceived works, media materials, ongoing propaganda campaigns, which is more than relevant in the light of the information and semantic wars being waged against the population of our country, as well as in the light of the task set before our society of educating a harmoniously developed and socially responsible personality. The experiments conducted within the framework of the RFBR project Tasks and methods of sociomental development of modern youth: theory, research, experiments, 2015-2017 on the development of understanding skills in the field of social communication showed a positive trend. Mass development of understanding skills of our compatriots will have a positive impact on the processes of socialization and social adaptation in modern Russia.