Religious self-identification of youth: a socio-cultural mechanism of reproduction
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Seliverstova N.A., Zubok Y.A. (2023) Religious self-identification of youth: a socio-cultural mechanism of reproduction. Zhurnal sotsiologii i sotsialnoy antropologii (The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology), 26(2): 135–174 (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.31119/jssa.2023.26.2.7
Abstract
The article theoretically substantiates the connection of religious self-identification with the reproduction of the socio-cultural self-regulation mechanism in young people’s lives. The reproductive potential of religious self-identification in relation to the unconscious and the conscious, traditional and modern in the mechanism of self-regulation has been studied. The results of an empirical analysis of data on the features of the reproduction of the elements of this mechanism and the corresponding semantic patterns in the groups of believers, unbelievers and undecided are presented. A three-dimensional correlation analysis was carried out taking into account the age differentiation of young people, which determines their socio-psychological and socio-cultural specifics. It was revealed that the reproduction of socio-cultural components, firstly, occurs in the logic of simple, expanded, or narrowed reproduction, and secondly, it is not always determined by religious identity. Religious self-identification uniquely reproduces only archetypes and loses its unambiguous connection with other elements of the unconscious — mental traits, habits, stereotypes. The reproduction of national character features and habitus significantly correlates with religious self-identification only in groups of pronounced carriers and not all, but some orientations. The reproduction of stereotypes is more significantly associated with age than with religious identification. In the reproduction of modern traits that have become the character features as the result of global culture influence, their connection with religious identification is noticeably leveled. And in the reproduction of the meanings of the base culture and subculture, the non-linearity and hybridization of value orientations and meaning compositions were fully manifested. The presence of religious self-identification supports the reproduction of traditional, but does not guarantee the weakening of the influence of modern culture on the youth. In the group of believing youth, there is a simple reproduction or a tendency towards a narrowing reproduction of traditional elements and a simple or a tendency towards an expanded reproduction of modern components of culture.
Keywords:
youth, religious self-identification, mechanism of socio-cultural reproduction, archetypes, mentality, habits, stereotypes, generational traits, subcultural meanings
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Bezrogov V. (2006) Mezhdu Stalinym i Hristom: religioznaya socializatsiya detej v sovetskoj i postsovetskoj Rossii (na materialax vospominanij o detstve) [Between Stalin and Christ: Religious Socialization of Children in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia (based on memories)]. Antropologicheskij forum [Anthropological Forum], 4: 130–162 (in Russian).
Bourdieu P. (1995) Struktury, habitus, praktiki. Sovremennaya social`naya teoriya: Bourdieu, Giddens, Habermas [Structures, habitus, practices. Modern social theory: Bourdieu, Giddens, Habermas]. Novosibirsk: Izdatel’stvo Novosibirskogo universiteta (in Russian).
Chuprov V.I., Zubok Yu.A., Lyubutov A.S., Sorokin O.V. (2021) Samoregulyatsiya zhiznedeyatel'nosti molodezhi: strukturno-takticheskoye modelirovaniye [Self-regulation of youth life: structural and taxonomic modeling]. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological research], 10: 23–36 (in Russian).
Chuprov V.I., Zubok Yu.A., Romanovich N.A. (2014) Otnoshenie k social`noj real`nosti v rossijskom obshchestve: sociokul`turnyj mexanizm formirovaniya i vosproizvodstva [Attitude to social reality in Russian society: socio-cultural mechanism of formation and reproduction]. Moscow: Norma (in Russian).
Chuprov V.I. (2017) Mexanizm samoregulyatsii sociokul`turnogo vosproizvodstva v molodezhnoj srede v izmenyayushchemsya obshchestve [The mechanism of self-regulation of socio-cultural reproduction in the youth environment in a changing society]. Materialy` VII mezhdunarodnoj sotsiologicheskoj Grushinskoj konferentsii "Navstrechu budushchemu. Prognozirovanie v sotsiologicheskih issledovaniyah" [Towards the future. Forecasting in sociological research], Moskva, 15–16 marta 2017 goda. Moscow: VCIOM: 98–100 (in Russian).
Divisenko K.S., Belov A.E. (2017) Sotsial`ny`e issledovaniya sub``ektivnogo blagopoluchiya v kontekste duhovnosti i religioznosti [Social studies of subjective well-being in the context of spirituality and religiosity]. Sotsiologicheskij zhurnal [Sociological Journal], 23(2): 51–73 (in Russian).
Frankl V. (1990) Chelovek v poiskakh smysla [Man's Search for Meaning]. Moscow: Progress (in Russian).
Kublitskaya E.A. (2009) Izuchenie religioznoj i konfessional`noj samoidentifikatsii sovremennogo rossijskogo obshchestva (sotsiologicheskij opyt) [The study of religious and confessional self-identification of modern Russian society (sociological experience)]. Social`no-gumanitarny`e znaniya [Social and humanitarian knowledge], 3: 267–280 (in Russian).
Kublitskaya E.A. (2019) Rol` religii i tserkvi v sovremennom obshchestve (v otsenkax moskovskoj molodezhi) [The role of religion and the Church in modern society (in the assessments of Moscow youth)]. Ryazantsev S.V., Rostovskaia T.K. (eds) Molodezh` i molodezhnaya politika: novye smysly i praktiki [Youth and youth policy: new meanings and practices]. Moscow: E`kon-Inform: 309–321 (in Russian).
Kublitskaya E.A., Lyutenko I.V. (2019) Traditsionnaya religioznost` i netradicionnye religioznye ucheniya v zhizni rossijskoj molodezhi: social`no-pedagogicheskie aspekty [Traditional religiosity and non-traditional religious teachings in the life of Russian youth: socio-pedagogical aspects]. CITISE` [QITISE], 5(22): 478–493 (in Russian).
Kublitskaya E.A., Nazarov M.M. (2019) Dinamika religioznosti v sovremennoj Rossii (po dannym issledovanij v stolichnom regione) [The dynamics of religiosity in modern Russia (according to research in the metropolitan region)]. Vestnik Rossijskoj akademii nauk [Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences], 89(11): 1120–1127 (in Russian).
Lebedev S.D. (2005) Religioznost`: v poiskax «rubikona» [Religiosity: in search of the “rubicon”]. Sociologicheskij zhurnal [Sociological Journal], 3: 153–168 (in Russian).
Lebedev S.D. (2010) Paradoksy religioznosti v mire pozdnego moderna [Paradoxes of religiosity in the world of Late Modernity]. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological research], 12(320): 85–93.
Lebedev S.D. (2019) O religioznoj identichnosti v sovremennom mire v svete dispozitsionnoj kontseptsii lichnosti V.A. Yadova [On religious identity in the modern world in the light of V.A. Yadov's dispositional concept of personality]. Budushchee sotsiologicheskogo znaniya i vyzovy social`nyh transformatsij (k 90-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya V.A. Yadova) [The future of sociological knowledge and the challenges of social transformations (to the 90th anniversary of the birth of V.A. Yadov)]. 28–30 noyabrya 2019 goda. Moscow: FNISZ RAN: 647–650 (in Russian).
Mchedlova M.M. (2001) Mentalitet [Mentality]. In: Rossijskaya tsivilizatsiya: etnokul`turnye i duhovnye aspekty: Entsiklopedicheskij slovar`[Russian civilization: ethno-cultural and spiritual aspects]. Moscow: Respublika (in Russian).
Mchedlov M.P. (2005) Religiozny li molodye rossiyane? [Are young Russians religious?] Monitoring obshchestvennogo mneniya: ekonomicheskie i social`nye peremeny [Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes], 2(74): 38–45 (in Russian).
Orekhanov Yu.L. (2014) Sekulyarizatsiya i postmodern: religioznye protsessy v molodezhnoj srede v sovremennoj Rossii i Evrope i ih social`no-bogoslovskaya refleksiya [Secularization and Postmodernity: Religious Processes in the Youth Environment in Modern Russia and Europe and their Socio-theological Reflection]. Vestnik Pravoslavnogo Svyato-Tixonovskogo gumanitarnogo universiteta. Seriya 1: Bogoslovie. Filosofiya [St. Tikhon's University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies], 6(56): 101–118 (in Russian).
Pavlyutkin I.V. (2020) Dinamika religioznosti molodyx lyudej v Rossii [The dynamics of the religiosity of young people in Russia]. Nauchnyj rezul`tat. Sotsiologiya i upravlenie [Research Result. Sociology and management], 6(3):153–183 (in Russian).
Pruczkova E.V. (2015) Svyaz` religioznosti i tsennostno-normativnyh pokazatelej: faktor religioznoj sotsializatsii [The relationship of religiosity and value-normative indicators: the factor of religious socialization]. Vestnik Pravoslavnogo Svyato-Tixonovskogo gumanitarnogo universiteta. Seriya 1: Bogoslovie. Filosofiya [St. Tikhon's University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies], 3(59): 62–80 (in Russian).
Rutkevich E.D. (2021) (Ne)Religioznoe raznoobrazie i sootnoshenie religioznogo, duhovnogo i svetskogo v soznanii sovremennogo cheloveka [(Non)Religious Diversity and correlation of religious, spiritual and secular in the consciousness of modern man]. Vestnik Instituta sociologii [Bulletin of the Institute of Sociology], 12(3): 54–78 (in Russian).
Sinelina Yu.Yu. (2006) Dinamika protsessa votserkovleniya pravoslavnyh [Dynamics of the process of Orthodox Church formation]. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological research], 11(271): 89–97 (in Russian).
Yung K.G. (1991) Arkhetip i simvol [Archetype and symbol]. Moscow: Renessans (in Russian).
Zubok Yu.A., Chuprov V.I. (2008) Social`naya regulyatsiya v usloviyah neopredelennosti. Teoreticheskie i prikladnye problemyv issledovanii molodezhi [Social regulation in conditions of uncertainty. Theoretical and applied problems in youth research]. Moscow: Academia (in Russian).
Zubok Yu.A., Chuprov V.I. (2020) Molodezh' v kul'turnom prostranstve: samoregulyatsiya zhiznedeyatel'nosti [Youth in the cultural space: self-regulation of life]. Moscow: Norma (in Russian).
Zubok Yu.A., Yakovuk T.I. (2008) Duhovnaya zhizn` molodezhi v transformiruyushchemsya obshchestve [The spiritual life of youth in a transforming society]. Brest: Alternativa (in Russian).
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Received: 13.11.2022
Accepted: 03.07.2023
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Seliverstova, N.A. and Zubok, Y.A. 2023. Religious self-identification of youth: a socio-cultural mechanism of reproduction. Zhurnal sotsiologii i sotsialnoy antropologii (The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology). 26, 2 (Jun. 2023), 135–174. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31119/jssa.2023.26.2.7.
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