After school he attended Saint Petersburg State University where he studied philosophy (1948—1953, diploma with distinction).

In 1967 he defended a doctoral thesis, Social Psychology as a science (questions of history, methodology and theory).

In 1965, Saint Petersburg State University publishing house had released Parygin's first monograph, Social Psychology as a Science, which became a bibliographical rarity.

In his book, Parygin presented the concept of the main social and psychological problems and, first of all, the question of personality and human communication.

[4]At the meeting of Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1972), however, Parygin was called a leader of international revisionism of Marxism because of his independent interpretation.

He was the author of 10 prominent monographs and more than 400 articles, which were translated into many foreign languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Lettish and others.