CHARACTERISTICS OF RUSSIAN YOUNG PEOPLE’S SELF-REALIZATION: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS
The paper addresses the problem of Russian young people’s self-realizaton, its features and new forms of young people’s social and cultural identification in the context of present globalization process. It is established that it is the younger generation’s pursuit of personal fulfillment that bring...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Kemerovo State University
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета |
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| Online Access: | https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/1468 |
| Summary: | The paper addresses the problem of Russian young people’s self-realizaton, its features and new forms of young people’s social and cultural identification in the context of present globalization process. It is established that it is the younger generation’s pursuit of personal fulfillment that brings about setting and achievement of long-term goals and tasks appropriate to the requirements and conditions of social transformation in the modern Russian society. The author proves that the following factors slow down development of contemporary education: 1) lack of criticism to the westernization of lifestyle in Russia, 2) deintellectualization process, 3) management ignorance, 4) fear to accept more intelligent employees to work, 5) relatively remote effects of reforms in the education system, 6) unstructured character of the reforms in the education system and so on. It is stressed that these factors confront the real process of man’s becoming a humane being connected with the personality’s humanitarian culture development. Today’s Russian young people are looking for spiritual non-material benefits which presuppose that the spiritual is the structural moral “core” of the individual. However, often the spiritual is beyond the physical of existence. Russian young people are denying “eternal”, true imperishable values. Progress in science and technology has resulted in numerous material benefits which are extensively used not only by young people but oligarchs, bureaucrats and the upper social class. It is stressed that today’s young man is in search of higher ideals and “eternal” values in order to survive in consumer society which features a gap between a “golden multi-millionaire” and the rest of people. This gap produces new forms of disposal and makes old ones deeper. The author notes that traditional values make up the healthy younger generation, on the one hand. On the other hand, the transition stage and the pattern of a future society the younger generation have to buildspecify the requirements necessary to make the younger generation healthy. The following traditional values of the Russian society are taken into account in the process of social and cultural make up of the younger generation: team spirit, spirit of altruism, striving for high ideals and nonmaterial benefits. |
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| ISSN: | 2078-8975 2078-8983 |