scholarly journals Research Approaches «Memory Studies» In the Study of Reverse Socio-Cultural Processes in Modern Russian Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Pushkareva ◽  
◽  
Darya V. Agaltsova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Social Experiment ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Social

Reverse processes in the public socio-cultural life of modern Russia are associated with the revival of a number of contradictory past values: the Soviet society ideals (the social experiment of building socialism ended twenty years ago, and before that it lasted more than 70 years); religious Orthodox revival (focused on the values of pre-revolutionary Russia before 1917); the development of traditional folk culture (transferring the value horizon into pre-Christian Slavic culture). The purpose of the article is to show how historical memory “lives” in the collective consciousness of modern Russians, how the archaization processes of historical memory and memorial practices are implemented at various social levels – from individual families (family memory), lower social cells (the level of municipalities, local clubs, schools), to federal school textbooks and national holidays. And turning to the analysis of Russian reality through the approaches of “memory studies” can have serious heuristic potential.

A successful person, society and civic activism

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1800-1816
Author(s):  
G.B. Kozyreva ◽  
T.V. Morozova ◽  
R.V. Belaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Civic Activism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human And Social Capital ◽  
Person Model ◽  
Social Disparity

Subject. The article provides considerations on the formation and development of a successful person model in the modern Russian society. Objectives. The study is an attempt to model a successful person in the Russian society, when the ideological subsystem of the institutional matrix is changing. Methods. The study relies upon the theory of institutional matrices by S. Kirdina, theories of human and social capital. We focus on the assumption viewing a person as a carrier of social capital, which conveys a success, socio-economic position, social status, civic activism, doing good to your family and the public, confidence in people and association with your region. The empirical framework comprises data of the sociological survey of the Russian population in 2018. The data were processed through the factor analysis. Results. We devised a model of a successful person in today's Russian society, which reveals that a success, first of all, depends on the economic wellbeing and has little relation to civic activism. The potential involvement (intention, possibility, preparedness) in the social and political life significantly dominates the real engagement of people. The success has a frail correlation with constituents of the social capital, such as confidence in people and doing good to the public. Conclusions and Relevance. Based on the socio-economic wellbeing, that is consumption, the existing model of a successful person proves to be ineffective. The sustainability of socio-economic wellbeing seriously contributes to the social disparity of opportunities, which drive a contemporary Russian to a success in life.

Gitanas without a tambourine: Notes on the historical representation and personal self-representation of the Spanish Romani woman

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-165
Author(s):  
Ester Alba Pagán ◽  
Aneta Vasileva Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Historical Representation ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Roma Women

The performative representation of the Spanish Roma woman reveals a historical journey that brings her closer to many symbolic elaborations of the feminine, giving her a special affinity with the imaginary concerning the colonized woman, particularly with the Orientalist vision. Developed initially by the travelling intellectuals in Spain who sought a fusion of the topics of sexualized exoticism, the myth was reworked by local artists and thinkers without undermining their power to silence and make invisible the reality of the most vulnerable and most represented members of the ethnic group, their women. Today, a growing awareness of the importance of collective action directs Roma women to initiatives such as the revision of their historical memory, at the intersection between the external gaze and self-perception. These searches lead to the pioneering creation of community museum institutions, which have arisen around feminine Roma associations and are a symptom of an emerging desire to be heard. Based on the terminological tools shared by women and memory studies, this article seeks the personal dimension of this invitation to listen. The authors analyse a series of interviews with Roma women that investigate the social agents of representation, self-representation and their conceptual and experiential foundations.

scholarly journals Moscow students: Changes in value orientations

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-63
Author(s):  
I. M. Ilyinsky ◽  
V. A. Lukov
Keyword(s):  
Transition Period ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Circle ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Empirical Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Moral Qualities ◽  
High Level

The article considers the stable ideas of the significant part of the Moscow students when assessing personal qualities typical for the Russian youth. The study presented in the report of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation in 2011 identified a high level of the youth’s criticism when assessing one’s generation and emphasizing its egoism and irresponsibility. In the surveys conducted in the Moscow University for Humanities in 2011-2019, a part of the same questionnaire was used to assess the qualities of the contemporary Russian youth, and the results were the same. In the ranking of such qualities in 2019, the first 10 positions were taken by laziness, selfishness, sociability, irresponsibility, aggressiveness, independence, indifference, optimism, naivety and cynicism, i.e. together with positive features there are qualities traditionally considered in the Russian society as unacceptable. The last 10 positions were taken by openness, kindness, pushfulness, initiative, greed, rationalism, responsibility, honesty, patriotism and conscientiousness. Thus, the highly appreciated by the society moral qualities are presented in the students’ estimates as not typical for the youth. The additional open questions clarifying the value orientations of students in terms of their estimates of such attitudes of people in the past, present and future showed that in older generations and one’s social circle the student youth appreciate the most the socially valued qualities and want their children in the future to have such. The ranking of such qualities starts with honesty, kindness, responsibility, purposefulness, openness, sociability, sincerity, responsiveness, punctuality and goodwill. The contradictions between the estimates of the youth qualities and the expected qualities of one’s social circle have been repeatedly confirmed at the empirical level. However, this is not a feature of the student youth but rather a result of the social anomie in the sphere of value orientations in the transition period. The authors believe that the transformation trend of students’ value orientations towards individualism is stable but not typical for the youth in general.

scholarly journals New Social Elevators in the Regional Space

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-159
Author(s):  
Yury G. Volkov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Social Self ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
Expert Community

The problem of new social elevators in Russian society has entered the public space and has become abdiscussion space not only for the expert community, but also for practical managers. It is obvious that the social class and socio-territorial (spatial) barriers to upward social mobility generate abmultiplicative effect of social stagnation. According to the author of the article, new social elevators in the regional space are mechanisms of upward social mobility of subjects of the regional space (volunteer movements, social networks, subcultural practices), focused on changes in social status positions according to the criteria of social utility, social creativity, and social self-determination. Applying the principles of the resource approach (volume of capital, diversity capital, resource potential regional space, resursoemkost regional elite and non-elite actors of the regional space) on the basis of the results of all-Russian and regional sociological researches devoted to different aspects of the problem, it is concluded that the formation of abnew social mobility is the result of ab“social contract” with regional elites focus on social “capitalization” and the regional space, forming new social elevators within the framework of converting social and cultural-symbolic capital not for inclusion in regional elites, but for acquiring abresource of influence on making vital decisions for regional development.

Beyond Pedagogies of Repression

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (10) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry A. Giroux
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
High Stakes Testing ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Literacies

At a time when the public good is under attack and there seems to be a growing apathy toward the social contract or any other civic-minded investment in public values and the larger common good, education has to be seen as more than a credential or a pathway to a job, and pedagogy as more than teaching to the test. Against pedagogies of repression such as high-stakes testing, which largely serve as neoliberal forms of discipline to promote conformity and limit the imagination, critical pedagogy must be viewed as crucial to understanding and overcoming the current crises of agency, politics, and historical memory faced by many young people today. One of the challenges facing the current generation of educators and students is the need to reclaim the role that education has historically played in developing critical literacies and civic capacities. Education must mobilize students to be critically engaged agents, attentive to important social issues and alert to the responsibility of deepening and expanding the meaning and practices of a vibrant democracy.&hellip; At the heart of such a challenge is the question of what education should accomplish in a democracy.&hellip; In a world that has largely abandoned egalitarian and democratic impulses, what will it take to educate young people to challenge authority, resist the notion that education is only training, and redefine public and higher education as democratic public spheres?<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-67-number-10" title="Vol. 67, No. 10: March 2016" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>

На Материалах «Писем во Власть»

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-280
Author(s):  
Анна Дмитриевна Попова
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
The State ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
State University ◽  
Soviet Republic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Consciousness

“The Process of Reform during the Era of Perestroika and the Social Consciousness of Russian Society, from ‘Letters to the Authority’ Materials,” by Anna Dmitrievna Popova (Ryazan State University named for S. A. Yesenin): This article analyzes the transformation of Soviet public consciousness during the era of perestroika (restructuring). The authors examined letters which were sent by Soviet citizens to then President of the Russian Soviet Republic and future Russian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin. In these letters, citizens stated their opinions about the transformation of the Soviet political and economic system during this period. The authors’ analysis of these letters reveals that the mentality of the Soviet populace was strongly influenced by its assessment of perestroika. In this public consciousness, citizens placed a large emphasis on the traditional Soviet values of equality, justice, and labor, which defined public opinions about the transformation of Soviet society during perestroika. Soviet citizens demanded that the state deal with the problem of wide-ranging privileges afforded to officials of the Communist Party, while citizens negatively estimated the freedoms in spiritual life accorded to them by the state.

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1962 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-113
Author(s):  
W. R. Ward ◽  
S. I. Benn ◽  
W. H. Greenleaf ◽  
Brian Rodgers ◽  
John Erös ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
The Political ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Penal Reform ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Public mood of the Kuibyshev Region residents in 1990-1991 in the context of the social history of Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 263-270
Author(s):  
Alexey Vladimirovich Zakharchenko ◽  
Maksim Sergeevich Kirdyashev ◽  
Ksenia Viktorovna Pankeeva
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Emotional Reaction ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Chronological Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Apathy

This paper deals with 1990-1991 as a turning point, which marked the collapse of the policy of perestroika, the communist institutions of power became a relic of the past, metamorphoses took place in the social structure of the Soviet society. The focus of everyday life history is the reality in the interpretation of its immediate participants, who were witnesses of the events of those years. Such events can relate to different spheres of life, and participants in these events can be people of different social strata. Newspapers and magazines are considered to be an irreplaceable source of information for studying the relationship between government and society in this chronological period. Letters and appeals of citizens from the regional newspaper Volzhskaya Kommuna were taken into consideration. There were rubrics expressing public opinion about the dynamics of the perestroika policy. The emotional reaction reflected in the letters is of great interest. The sources clearly record the main tendencies and stages of the public mood that prevailed in that period, thereby transfer the political apathy that spread in the society. The information received from the sources makes a definite contribution to the study of the everyday life history and can serve as a basis for research and reveal new aspects in social history.

scholarly journals LEGAL AWARENESS IN RUSSIAN SOCIETY: THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
L.V. Karnaushenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Predominant Role ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Environment

Over a long period of time, the general theoretical aspects of law, its relationship with key areas of philosophical knowledge (ontology, axiology), as well as practice-oriented technical research played a predominant role in legal knowledge. At the same time, such an aspect of the functioning of law as legal consciousness remains not fully studied. This concerns both the social significance of legal consciousness and the social context of its formation in the public environment. Equally interesting is the question of what are the key trends in the formation of legal consciousness in Russian society. The article examines the problem of legal consciousness in Russian society. In the first part of the article, a general theoretical study of the essence of legal consciousness, its place in the system of social worldview, social significance, as well as key factors of formation is carried out. Separately, the question of the deformation of legal consciousness and its causes is raised. The second part of the work is devoted to the current state of legal consciousness in Russian society, which includes both the analysis of actual data and the consideration of indirect data, including the state of the main factors in the formation of legal consciousness in Russian society. The causes of the crisis of legal consciousness in Russian society are considered. Trends in the nature of attitudes towards law in Russian society are analyzed, and trends in the deformation of legal consciousness in Russia are also described. The processes described relate to institutional and information factors that are currently relevant. The third part of the article summarizes the results of the study, notes key trends in changing the situation with legal consciousness in Russian society. Options are offered to overcome the current crisis situation.

scholarly journals Social Institutions Transformation as a Factor of the Social and Economic Development of Modern Russia

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-61
Author(s):  
Elena Loginova ◽  
Natalia Loseva ◽  
Aleksandr Polkovnikov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Evolutionary Dynamics ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development

The systemic determinacy of modern Russian society in time and space coordinates allows us to conclude that it is at the process stage of the life cycle of the large-scale social and economic systems functioning within the stage of the digital age that is characterized by the features of environmental systems. It means that the logic of the social and economic development of modern Russia is to ensure the harmonization of the performance and state of all economic systems through communication and coordination, as well as creating conditions for transactions. Following this logic, the article proves the possibility of considering it as a factor providing conditions for socio-economic development using the example of the transformation of the public administration institution. The article defines the subject-object and structural content of the public administration institution. By using the matrix approach, the authors characterize the evolutionary dynamics of the public administration institution. It makes it possible to draw a conclusion about the formation within the local civilizational matrix of modern Russia of a new type of the institutional core – the intellectual one, in which basic and compensatory institutions of the market and distribution types are integrated. The article presents a methodology that allows determining the degree of the formation of public administration, as well as assessing its impact on the social and economic development ofmodern Russia.

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