The Archaization of Social Practices in the Challenges and Crises of Contemporary Russian Reality
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Sitnikov A.P. The Archaization of Social Practices in the Challenges and Crises of Contemporary Russian Reality. Humanities of the South of Russia. 2021. Vol. 11. No. 5. P. 54-72. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2021.5.3 (in Russ.).
Abstract
Objective of the study is the manifestations of the processes of archaization at the level of social practices of modern Russians.
The methodological basis of the research. The author holds the concept that the processes of social archaization should be studied not only as a macro-social phenomenon associated with large-scale changes caused by the transformation of society and its institutions, but also at the level of social practices – as their reduction to simpler and more comprehensible patterns of behavior.
Research results. Characterizing contemporary reality as a product of the mutual superposition of the process of mass-marketization of culture and public consciousness, initiated by the industrial era, and the process of growth of consumer value orientations and attitudes generated by post-industrial society, the author concludes that in modern conditions in Russia the trends of demodernization, associated in their genesis with the primitivization of the human inner world and its social expressions, coexist and mutually stimulate each other. The socio-cultural consequences of the industrialization era are expressed in the orientation of mass consciousness toward the reproduction of a standard. At the same time, emphasizes the author, elements of the socio-cultural reality of post-industrial society, in particular, orientation to a high mass consumption standard, loss of labor ethos, individualism, becoming features of mass consciousness, contribute to the trend of demodernization, primitivization of everyday practices. Noting the loss by mass consciousness of the values of traditional culture in their deep substantive content, the author emphasizes the simulacratic, imitative nature of its inherent value orientations. Social practices, to a large extent acquiring the character of imitation, become formal and representative, lose effectiveness, because they are not guided by the values of real creation.
Prospects of the study. The outlined approaches to conceptualizing the impact of archaization on the social practices of Russians will make it possible to further investigate the specifics of these social practices in conditions under which the tasks of modernization and renewal are acutely faced by Russian society.
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Volkov, V.V., Kharkhordin, O.V. (2008). Theory of practice. Saint Petersburg. (In Russian).
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Dondurey, D. (2009). The main challenges for Russia today - the quality of a person. Russkiy zhurnal. November 19. (In Russian).
Zaslavskaya, T.I. (1997). Sociostructural aspect of the transformation of Russian society. Мoscow. (In Russian).
Zakharov, A.V. (2003). Mass society and culture in Russia: socio-typological analysis. Voprosy filosofii, 9. (In Russian).
Kara-Murza, A.A. (1995). New Barbarism as a Problem of Russian Civilization. Moscow: IFE RAN Press, 114-121. (In Russian).
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Forced Labor in Modern Russia. Unregulated Migration and Human Trafficking. (2004). Мoscow. (In Russian).
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Samoilov, E. V. (2004). Cultural bans as a factor of economic activity. (Doctoral Dissertation, Rostov-on-Don). (In Russian).
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Serenko, A. (2009). Archaic revanche. Nezavisimaya Gazeta. February 18. (In Russian).
Solnyshkov, A.Yu. (2008). Informal relations of conscript servicemen in the situation of managerial interaction. (Candidate Dissertation, Moscow). (In Russian).
Tulchinskiy, G.L. (2007). Culture in a Shop. Neva, 2. (In Russian).
Khagurov, T.A. (2007). Dysfunctions of processes of socialization and social control in the conditions of expansion of mass consumer culture (problems of the deviantological analysis). (Doctoral Dissertation, Moscow). (In Russian).
Khoruzhaya, S.V. (2008). The meaningful sphere of culture: modes of crisis development. (Doctoral Dissertation, Rostov-on-Don). (In Russian).
Chernov, G.Yu. (2010). Establishment of the science of masses: the contribution of J. Jaspers and J. Baudrillard, current Tasks. Modern social and mass phenomena: the essence and the research problems. Materials of the All-Russian scientific and practical conference (May 18, 2010). Chelyabinsk: Ural'skaya akademiya gosudarstvennoy sluzhby. (In Russian).
Shtompel, L.A., Shtompel, O.M. (2010). Archaization of modern culture: necessity or accident? Tsennosti i smysly, 1 (4). (In Russian).
Eco, W. (1994). The Middle Ages have already begun. Inostranaya literature, 4, 258-267. (In Russian).
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Received: 28.08.2021
Accepted: 01.12.2021
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Sitnikov, A. P. (2021). The Archaization of Social Practices in the Challenges and Crises of Contemporary Russian Reality. Humanities of the South of Russia, 11(5), 54-72. https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2021.5.3
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