Value foundations of the culture of youth consumer leisure
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Rodionova V.I. Value foundations of the culture of youth consumer leisure. Humanities of the South of Russia. 2025. Vol. 14. No. 3. P. 85-95. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2025.3.7 (in Russ.).
Abstract
Objective of the study is to carry out a cultural-philosophical analysis of the value foundations of the culture of youth consumer leisure, emphasizing that this topic, with all its multifaceted nature, needs primarily the understanding of ideological positions, which are undoubtedly the prerogative of philosophy.
Methodological basis of the study is the interdisciplinary approach that includes methodological positions of cultural studies, sociology of culture, philosophical axiology, social philosophy, philosophy of culture. It allows us to show the specifics of culture in relation to the analysis of the value bases of youth consumer leisure. The authors prove that the approach based on the methodological standpoint of philosophy of culture can reveal the ideological (including value-based) reasons for the choice of consumer leisure by young people.
Results of the study. The initial position of the study is the assertion about the existence of a consumer leisure culture in the modern world, the key value of which is consumption. Undoubtedly, leisure culture can be highly spiritual, activity-oriented, developing, creative, but in this work the emphasis is placed on the consumer culture of modern youth, in the value field of which their leisure preferences were formed.
It is concluded that the consideration of the culture of youth consumer leisure in the paradigm of the philosophy of culture is based on its theoretical and methodological postulates. It is focused on the following: 1) the understanding of philosophy as a science about the ultimate foundations of being from the position of connection with culture as the most important basis of human existence; 2) the interpretation of the “world – man” dichotomy in the context of the culture of consumer society and youth as the bearer of its values; 3) the interpretation of leisure as an intrinsic value and rest as a vital value, which form the basis of the culture of youth consumer leisure.
Prospects of the study lie in further understanding of the culture of youth consumer leisure as the connection between its value foundations and the cultural norms formed on their basis, which determine the behavioral attitudes of youth. The study of behavioral patterns of youth, formed within the framework of consumer leisure culture, is relevant from the point of view of the contradiction between them and the traditional values and norms developed and supported by the Russian state.
Keywords:
consumer society, value foundations of leisure, youths, leisure as an intrinsic value, leisure as a vital value, the dichotomy “world – man”, culture of youth consumer leisure
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Bauman Z. Freedom. trans. from English by G. M. Dashevsky, foreword by Yu. A. Levada. Moskva: Novoye izd-vo = Moscow: New publishing house, 2006; 132 p. ISBN 5-98379-051-X. (In Russ.)
Baudrillard J. Consumer society: its myths and structures. Moskva: Respublika; Kul'turnaya revolyutsiya = Moscow: Respublika; Cultural revolution, 2006; 269 p. ISBN 5-250-01894-7. (In Russ.)
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Zhadko E. A. Architectonics of Consumer Society. Mezhdunarodnyy zhurnal gumanitarnykh i yestestvennykh nauk = International Journal of Humanities and Natural Sciences. 2025; 1-4(100): 105-108. DOI 10.24412/2500-1000-2025-1-4-105-108. (In Russ.)
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Kobzarenko L. N. Everyday-consumer leisure practices of modern youth: socio-cultural analysis. Vestnik Adygeyskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 1: Regionovedeniye: filosofiya, istoriya, sotsiologiya, yurisprudentsiya, politologiya, kul'turologiya = Bulletin of Adyghe State University. Series 1: Regional studies: philosophy, history, sociology, jurisprudence, political science, cultural studies. 2024; 3(344): 110-117. DOI 10.53598/2410-3691-2024-3-344-110-117. (In Russ.)
Mezhuev V. M. Philosophy of culture in the system of modern knowledge about culture. Kul'tura kul'tury = Culture of culture. 2024; 1: 3-11. (In Russ.)
Nekrasov M. S. Σχολή and otium: receptions of the ancient understanding of leisure for the modern world. Kazanskiy sotsial'no-gumanitarnyy vestnik = Kazan social and humanitarian bulletin. 2024; 4(67): 63-70. DOI 10.26907/2079-5912.2024.4.63-70. (In Russ.)
Reznik Yu. M. Beyond culture and sociality: the problem of transpersonality. Lichnost'. Kul'tura. Obshchestvo = Personality. Culture. Society. 2009; 11; 1(46-47): 109-119. (In Russ.)
Ryabkov V. M. Problems of leisure in the legacy of Aristotle. Biznes. Obrazovaniye. Pravo. = Business. Education. Law. 2019; 1 (46): 416-420. - DOI 10.25683 / VOLBI.2019.46.110. (In Russ.)
Pozhitnoy N. M., Khromeshkin V. M. Theorem of the value of rest in human life. Vestnik Irkutskogo gosudarstvennogo tekhnicheskogo universiteta = Bulletin of the Irkutsk State Technical University. 2012; 11 (70): 248-255. (In Russ.)
Fromm E. Man is lonely. translation from English by R. E. Oblonskaya. Inostrannaya literatura = Foreign literature. 1966; 1: 230-233. (In Russ.)
Chernykh S. S., Vodenko K. V., Kovalenko A. M., Chernov I. V. Conspicuous consumption of young people in the context of the expansion of the information society and global digitalization. Gumanitariy Yuga Rossii = Humanitarian of the South of Russia. 2019; 8(5): 179-189. DOI 10.23683/2227-8656.2019.5.15. (In Russ.)
Shapinskaya E. N. Culture in the era of "digital": cultural meanings and aesthetic values. Kul'tura kul'tury = Culture of culture. 2015; 3(7): 9. (In Russ.)
Ander B., Wilińska M. “We are not like those who/…/sit in the woods and drink”: the making of drinking spaces by youth. Qualitative Social Work. 2020; 19; 3: 424-439.
Dumazedier J. Sociology of Leisure. Amsterdam; New York: Scientific Publishing Company “Elsevier”, 1974. 231 p.
Ritzer J. Modern sociological theories. St. Petersburg: Piter, 2002. 688 p.
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Received: 11.04.2025
Accepted: 19.06.2025
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Rodionova, V. I. (2025). Value foundations of the culture of youth consumer leisure. Humanities of the South of Russia, 14(3), 85-95. https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2025.3.7
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