scholarly journals The role of regional identity in the structure of collective identities of the student youth of the Republic of Mordovia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-80
Author(s):  
Natalya V. Shumkova ◽  
Oleg E. Zubov
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Collective Identification ◽  
Emotional Component ◽  
Regional Community ◽  
Regional Component ◽  
The Republic

This article studies the structure of collective identities of modern student youth. The subject of the authors’ scientific interest is the role of regional identity in the structure of collective identities of young people in the Republic of Mordovia. The specifics of regional identity as a form of collective identification, its mobility, contextuality, heterogeneity, latency, productivity, and collective genesis are considered in detail. The priority of purposeful construction of positive regional identity as an effective tool for the preservation and development of human capital at the regional level is substantiated. The methodological framework of the study is based on the works by V. A. Tishkov, V. A. Yadov, and M. P. Krylov. The empirical basis of the study includes the data from a mass survey of student youth in the Republic of Mordovia (2020, questionnaire, quota sample, n = 414). Based on the collected empirical material, the regional component of students’ collective identity is comprehensively analyzed. According to the data obtained, identification with the regional community belongs to the identities of the modal level. Only a third (32%) of the surveyed students have a positive regional identity, while the majority of young people in Mordovia identify themselves with the region only nominally. The pronounced emotional component of regional identity is mostly characteristic of the representatives of the titular (Mordovian) nationality. The authors emphasize that in this case, the merging of ethnic and regional identities does not have any conflict potential, because the majority of the respondents perceive Mordovia as a full-fledged subject of the Russian Federation. The conclusion is made about the necessity of diversifying “image projects” in order to build a positive image of the republic among young people.

Children and Young People’s Right to Participate: National and Local Youth Councils in Ireland

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Forde ◽  
Shirley Martin
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Societal Impacts ◽  
The Republic

This article explores the impacts of participation in local and national child and youth councils in the Republic of Ireland. It is based on an original research study for which 300 young people were asked about their experience of participating in youth councils. The research indicates that while youth councils have succeeded in offering children and young people opportunities to acquire skills and to influence decision-making at the local level, the institutional and societal impacts of their participation are less apparent. The research provides evidence that youth participation impacts positively on young people’s active citizenship and on-going engagement with democratic institutions after their participatory experiences have ended. It also indicates a growing awareness and recognition of the role of children and young people in the community. The article concludes that participatory structures such as youth councils should be underpinned by statutory guidelines and legislation so that children and young people’s participation is meaningful and gains from their participation are not lost.

RELIGION IN THE AXIOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF KAZAKHSTANI YOUTH

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-196
Author(s):  
Aigerim Zhampetova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Public Worship

Together with independence, the Republic of Kazakhstan reacquired its lost traditional values; religion, controlled and suppressed by the Soviet atheist ideology, being one of the most important elements along with the growing number of religious communities and associations, as well as places of public worship. Today, religiosity is on the rise, especially among the younger generation: everyday religious practices are observed by individuals or groups of people at workplaces and homes and in the course of communication. The author has analyzed the role of religion in axiological orientation and the level of religious feelings of the young people aged 18-22 on the basis of sociological poll results.

Collective Identities

2019 ◽  
pp. 416-420
Author(s):  
Anton Sterbling
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Functional Differentiation ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Political Exclusion ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Social Entities

Collective identity is an abstract category which encompasses narrowly definable concepts such as group identity, cultural identity, or regional identity, and historically specific types of community formation and sociation such as clans, tribes, peoples, nations, or ethnic minorities, including socio-structural concepts such as social status and class as well as political parties and movements. A definition of the term collective identities includes every process of community formation and sociation that leads to clearly definable social entities, although communicative processes of self- and other-identification and corresponding attitudes appear to be of constitutive importance. The transformation of collective identities is considered in view of the ‘three waves of democratization’, and the socio-structural processes of ‘political exclusion’, ‘socio-cultural closures’, and ‘meritocratic-functional differentiation’. Currently massive migration processes are also connected with questions and symptoms of a crisis of collective identities. At the same time, issues of multiple identities gain more importance.

Contraceptive behavior in women in the Republic of Kalmykia

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-84
Author(s):  
Vadim K Iur’ev ◽  
Anatolij G Serdjukov ◽  
Ceren M Tebleev ◽  
Viktor G Puzyrev
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Young People ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Intrauterine Device ◽  
The Self ◽  
Sexual Life ◽  
Sexually Active ◽  
Barrier Methods ◽  
The Republic

Contraception is the important component of family planning. It plays the important role in fighting with abortion and preserving the reproductive health of women. The specially designed anonymous survey was performed in 375 women living in the Republic of Kalmykia in the age from 16 till 45 years old. The average age of beginning of sexual life was estimated as 18,6 ± 0,1 years at the examined group. The average age decreased from 19,3 ± 0,3 to 17,0 ± 0,2 during the last 10 years. Almost the half of respondent (45,9 %) started the sexual life before the marriage. Kalmyk women started the sexual life later than Russian and entered the premarital relationship rarely. 70,2 % of sexually active women protected from pregnancy: 74,2 % used barrier methods of contraception, 13,5 % - intrauterine device, 12,9 % - oral hormone contraception, 11,1% - rejected sexual intercourse. Women below 30 and Kalmyk women used the barrier methods of contraception most often. Women older than 30 years used intrauterine device most often, oral hormone contraception was in use among cities inhabitants and among Russian women. The self-appraisal of knowledge on contraception questions showed that women estimate their erudition as 3,98 ± 0,04 on average. One quarter (23,2 %) of women consider themselves insufficiently or poorly informed dealing with this question. Women in the age below 20 and inhabitants of countryside are less informed. The information was received from the formal source by 32,5 % of women (at school - 27,7 %, from healthcare workers - 4,8 %). The majority of women (50,8 %) received the information from the informal source: 17,9 % - mother and other relatives, 12,8 % - mass media, 4,3 % - printed matter. The role of school in the informing young people dealing with this question decreased during the last few years. The role of healthcare workers in the informing young people is very low.

Public discourse, political legitimacy, and collective identity: Cases from Iraq, Brazil and China

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (s1) ◽  
pp. 560-585
Author(s):  
Max Hänska ◽  
Ahmed Bahiya ◽  
Fernanda Amaral ◽  
Yu Sui
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Communication Space ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Government

AbstractThrough the examination of recent developments in Iraq, Brazil and China, this paper explores the role of public communication in a) generating, corralling, and buttressing political legitimacy, and b) negotiating, demarcating, and reproducing collective identities. The transformation of Iraq’s public sphere after the fall of the Ba’ath regime saw it shift from a tightly controlled and unified communication space to unencumbered yet fragmented spheres split along ethno-sectarian lines, buttressing sectarian politics and identities. The emergence of subaltern publics in Brazil’s favelas empowered residents to express public dissent, assert their voice, and develop pride in their community. Chinese efforts to control online public discourse provide the government with ways of managing its perceived legitimacy and foster patriotic fellowship online. Legitimation and the affirmation of identity interact and support one another in public discourse, as we illustrate.

scholarly journals Municipal Toponymic Policy as a Tool for Translation of Regional Identity: a Case of Modern Kazan (Russia)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Golomidova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Regulatory Documents ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The City

Currently, the Russian cities are involved in the marketing of territories and competition for various types of resources. This aspect determines the relevance of issues related to building a strong image of the city, including its toponymic component. The category of regional identity is one of the significant tools for managing the image of a city. According to the author, it can be used in municipal toponymic policy to build a long-term strategy for toponymic designation. The author analyzes the current toponymic policy in the city of Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan of the Russian Federation, in terms of the manifestation of regional identity. The directions for the correction of the urban toponymicon in the post-Soviet era are considered. The dominant components of regional identity, explicated in the modern toponymy of Kazan, are revealed. The role of regulatory documents in the implementation of the municipal toponymic policy of the contemporary period is characterized.

Queer Festivals

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Eleftheriadis
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
European Level

To what extent is queer anti-identitarian? And how is it experienced by activists at the European level? At queer festivals, activists, artists and participants come together to build new forms of sociability and practice their ideals through anti-binary and inclusive idioms of gender and sexuality. These ideals are moreover channelled through a series of organisational and cultural practices that aim at the emergence of queer as a collective identity. Through the study of festivals in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Copenhagen, and Oslo, Queer Festivals: Challenging Collective Identities in a Transnational Europe thoughtfully analyses the role of activist practices in the building of collective identities for social movement studies as well as the role of festivals as significant repertoires of collective action and sites of identitarian explorations in contemporary Europe.

Practical patriots

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-59
Author(s):  
Carole Holohan
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
The Political ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Limited Impact ◽  
Future Analysis ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Economic Future ◽  
The Way

Chapter one examines the way in which the political classes envisioned the role of youth and identifies how youth featured in broader discourses of societal change. The commemoration of the 1916 Rising on its 50th anniversary provided an opportunity for national stocktaking, and an analysis of how young people featured in commemorative narratives and activities demonstrates the centrality of youth in the idea of an improved economic future. Analysis of the role of youth in the politics of both party and protest reveals the extent to which an international challenge to establishment forces from young people featured in the Republic of Ireland, and demonstrates the limited impact of young people on mainstream politics, despite their significance for economic change.

scholarly journals Transformation of ethnic identity of gagauz and bulgarian youth during the period of transition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larisa Horozova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Young People ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Republic Of Moldova ◽  
The Republic

In a transitive society, under the influence of various factors, the actualization, transformation and reassessment of the role of ethnic identity can occur. Based on the results of the conducted empirical research of ethnic identity of the student youth of the Gagauz and Bulgarians of the Republic of Moldova, it is revealed that young people with different attitudes towards labor migration demonstrate different strategies of ethnic self-determination. The conclusion is made about the influence of the attitude on the inclusion in the process of labor migration on the ethnic identity of young people.

scholarly journals The Subculture of Male Unions as a Socio-Cultural Institution in Modern Societies

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 740-753
Author(s):  
Anna V. Komarova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Large Network ◽  
Cultural Component ◽  
The One

At the present time, in the socio-cultural space, there are many communities and subcultural movements attractive to young people and aimed at young people. Subcultural diversity, which constitutes the integrity of society’s culture, acts as a space for the formation of identification models and an alternative to cultural unification, which is increasingly embracing the world.Diversity is a source of social development and, under the conditions of cardinal cultural and civilizational changes, requires scientific understanding to justify the instruments of its support, on the one hand. On the other hand, it needs the development of practical recommendations and a system of measures for effective interaction of the state with subcultural communities.Male unions have an important role and active development in the life of society and in the subcultural environment. Historically representing a fundamental socio-cultural element of social development, they occupied a social niche and began to play an essential role in society in the 21st century.It is relevant to study the role of male unions in modern society because of the following factors: 1) the institution of male unions of ancient tribes, with their initiation rites, has acquired a new form and content and still exists, 2) the experience of studying the role of male unions demonstrates that they are included in a complex system of social and spiritual ties and have made a significant contribution to the formation of certain structures of society, once becoming a prototype of the modern armed forces, 3) currently possessing a large network of interpersonal closed ties, including those at the international level, and a well-established collective identity, male unions influence the functioning of the social system and its cultural and spiritual content.The article aims to describe the subculture of male unions represented by motorcycle clubs, as well as to determine the methodological problems associated with the study of motorcycle subculture as a socio-cultural component of society.The novelty of the article is in the generalization of life regularities of modern male unions as traditional socio-cultural institutions. The emergence of such a phenomenon makes it important to study the possible prospects for male unions’ development, their role and place in society, and interaction with them.

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