Symbolic images of international relations in consciousness of Russian citizens: political-psychological analysis
The article presents results of the empirical study of symbolic aspects of perception of international relations by Russian mass consciousness. Attention is paid to the consideration of symbolic images of international relations as an integral part of symbolic map of the world. The results of qua...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Law
2020-03-01
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| Series: | Антиномии |
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| Online Access: | http://yearbook.uran.ru/images/files/Ant_20_1_89116.pdf |
| Summary: | The article presents results of the empirical study of symbolic aspects of
perception of international relations by Russian mass consciousness. Attention is paid
to the consideration of symbolic images of international relations as an integral part
of symbolic map of the world. The results of qualitative study allow us to consider the
ideas of Russians about the subjects, structure, principles of international relations,
as well as about the likely, desirable and undesirable trends in the transformation of
international relations. The study of symbolic representations of international relations
is based on political and psychological approach. The study of images takes into account
both rationalized assessments and unconscious aspects of the perception of the political
map of the world. For this purpose, the author used projective techniques as part of the
polls. The article identifies factors of symbolic representations of international relations
in mass political consciousness. The results of study makes it possible to assert that
the symbolic perception of international relations is Russian-centered, fragmented
and situational in nature, which is to a large extent determines the dependence of
the process of forming political map of the world on the specifics of communication.
As a result of the study, several models of the political perception of world maps are
identified: a model of an alarming type, a positive-optimistic type, a pragmatic-rational
type, and a fragmented-indefinite type. The revealed tendencies in the perception of
political map of the world include some incongruence of symbolic images of the world
map in case of pragmatic type of perception; anxiety at the level of mass political
consciousness; blurry images of «friends» and «strangers» in international relations.
The ambiguity of Russians' ideas about the place of Russia in the world and its possible
strategies for behavior in international politics makes the perception of political map of
the world hypersensitive and dependent, first of all, on stereotypes, clichés and media’s
information agenda. |
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| ISSN: | 2686-7206 2686-925X |