Patriotic attitudes of regional young people

The research interest to a patriotism among the young people is determined both by applied objectives of the determination of content, structure and mechanisms of regional policy for development of civism and patriotism, and actualization of problems of the structural changes in the public sphere, political and ideological subsystems of society in the scientific community. Article is focused on the determination of the content of patriotic attitudes in the context of cognitive (visions of homeland and self-identity), emotional (values) and behavioral (wishful practices of patriotic behavior) resources. Based on data of sociological researches "Civism and patriotism among the young people of Tomsk region" (January, 2012) the author comes to the following conclusions: 1) dominant values of young people allow to characterize it as a group concentrating interests in a small communicative circle; 2) values, which build up the civism and patriotism of young people, take the peripheral positions; 3) WE-self-identity of young people are connected with dominant values, focused on private sphere of life and small communicative circle, which contradict to the foundation principles of patriotic self-consciousness that is propose a high level of collective identity development. A peculiar deso-cialization in the context of identity is connected, on the one hand, with increasing fragmentation of Russian society, on the other hand, with increase of the asymbolism of public space in the Russia owing to virtualization of sociopolitical sphere; 4) The semantic analysis of the concept "Homeland" shows 3 base dimensions: territorial-formal, emotional-personal and patriotic; 5) The most significant function of the patriotism for young people is ideological. Youth considers forms requiring civil activity as the least significant manifestations of true patriotism. 6) Civil and patriotic self-identification is not connected with neatly defined role prescriptions and models of behavior in modern youth society; 7) The most widespread form of the civil activity of young people is "recreational" (participation in the festive and physical-sport events and activities). The second widespread form is "creative-altruistic" (charity and volunteerism). The least widespread form of civil activity is "politicized" form, which imply the participation in political gatherings, membership in political parties and active journalistic activity in the Internet. Thus, patriotism in the visualization of regional young people is not claimed as a political practice in the field of rationality. It more likely performs the functions of social control and social cohesion which indicates the transformation or even destruction of public sphere. This position should be taken into account in the field of development of regional policy on patriotic education of young people.

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