TRANSFIGURATION OF MORAL VALUES FOUNDATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES

The  article  deals  with  changing  processes  in  moral  values  foundations and trends in  contemporary societies, focusing on their current  state and  specific features often referred to as postmodern. These processes include such phenomenon as divergence between morality and ethics, where the...

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Main Authors: Victor Tancher, Valentyna Pliushch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts 2020-05-01
Series:Міжнародні відносини: теоретико-практичні аспекти
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Online Access:http://international-relations.knukim.edu.ua/article/view/203720
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Summary:The  article  deals  with  changing  processes  in  moral  values  foundations and trends in  contemporary societies, focusing on their current  state and  specific features often referred to as postmodern. These processes include such phenomenon as divergence between morality and ethics, where the latter comes into conflict with traditional moral standards in professional communities. New behavioural patterns and goals overpass the boundaries of the earlier established norms and customs. Normative morality is replaced by ethos of certain communities, “tribes” and gender groups. Prominent proponents of the postmodern sociological theory (J. Baudrillard, Z. Bauman, S. Lash, M. Maffesoli) emphasize on the factor of relativity in ideological orientations,  which  can  lead  to  “values  chaos”,  where  rationalization  of  social relations, sociality, and progress are substituted by sensual irrationality, individualization, ingress, etc. New research is required to define new human values hierarchy (or transfiguration) of contemporary societies. These tendencies are relevant to present-day Ukrainian society in terms of its processes and specific features   such   as   “hybrid”   morality,   migration,   domestic   culture,   and   youth subcultures, etc.
ISSN:2616-745X
2616-7794