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Indicators of Patriotism's Reproduction As a Marker of Identification Matrix Indicators of patriotism’s reproduction as a marker of identification matrix in youth environment of multiethnic society 171 INdicators of patrioTism’S repRoductioN as A marker of identificatioN matrix iN youth enviRonment of mulTiethNiC SoCiety INdicadores dE lA repRoduccióN dEl patrioTismo CoMo marcadoR dE matriz dE identificacióN en El entorno jUvenil dE lA SoCiEdAd mulTiétnica ABSTRACT Patriotism as a multilevel phenomenon and the most important factor in the formation of patterns of identification and solidarity practices attracts a lot of attention from the current scientific community. The younger generation is the main resource of social reproduction and the future image of any state. Therefore, the sociological analysis of the indicators of the reproduction of patriotism in its environment becomes fundamentally important. The processes of forming patriotic attitudes are so complex and contradictory in a multi-ethnic environment. For this reason, the authors pay attention to the southern region as the most multi-ethnic region of the Russian state. Empirical sociological research was taking place in Dagestan. We can identify the main indicators of the reproduction of training and patriotism in the youth environment of this region and also a series of problems that prevent it from becoming a mature civil-state (Russian) youth identity. The authors of this article are convinced of the impossibility of patriotism without civic responsibility education and willingness to act (work, study) for our Homeland. This statement was based on the concept of civic patriotism that was chosen as the methodological basis of this research. We consider patriotism as the most important resource for the formation of the civic identity of the state in the methodological fields. Not only the study of patriotism, but also the development of recommendations in the field of patriotic education of young people are relevant to prevent the risks of forming nationalist attitudes that are very dangerous for societies and multi-ethnic states. KEYWOrdS: patriotism, patriotic education, Russian identity, state-civil identity, civic patriotism, youth, patriotic values. Copyright © Revista San Gregorio 2018. eISSN: 2528-7907 RESUMEN El patriotismo como fenómeno multinivel y el factor más importante en la formación de pautas de identificación y prácticas solidarias atrae mucha atención de la comunidad científica actual. La generación más joven es el principal recurso de reproducción social y la imagen futura de cualquier estado. Los procesos de formación de actitudes patrióticas son tan complejos y contradictorios en un entorno multiétnico. Los autores prestan atención a la región sur como la región más multiétnica del estado ruso. La investigación sociológica empírica se estaba llevando a cabo en Daguestán. Podemos identificar los principales indicadores de la reproducción de la formación y el patriotismo en el entorno juvenil de esta región y también una serie de problemas que impiden que se convierta en una identidad juvenil civil-estatal (rusa) madura. Los autores piensan que estos problemas determinan la necesidad del componente de actividad en el sistema de indicadores del patriotismo. Los autores de este artículo están convencidos de la imposibilidad del patriotismo sin educación de responsabilidad cívica y disposición para actuar (trabajar, estudiar) para nuestra Patria. Esta declaración se basó en el concepto de patriotismo cívico que se eligió como base metodológica de esta investigación. Consideramos el patriotismo como el recurso más importante para la formación de la identidad cívica del estado en los ámbitos metodológicos. No solo el estudio del patriotismo, sino también los desarrollos de recomendaciones en el ámbito de la educación patriótica de los jóvenes son relevantes para prevenir los riesgos de formar actitudes nacionalistas que son muy peligrosas para las sociedades y los estados multiétnicos. PALABRAS clAVE: patriotismo, educación patriótica, identidad rusa, identidad estatal-civil, patriotismo cívico, juventud, valores patrióticos. Svetlana I. IMgrunt Copyright © Revista San Gregorio 2018. eISSN: 2528-7907 Adyghe State University. Russian Federation LidiyA I. SCherbakovA SergEy I. SamygiN [email protected] Platov South-Russian State Polytechnic Univer- Rostov State Economic University . Russian sity . Russian Federation Federation [email protected] [email protected] Elena N. Bandurina Rostov State Economic University . Russian Petr S. SamygiN IRina V. VElikodnayA Federation [email protected] Rostov State Economic University . Russian South-Russian Institute of Management. Federation Russian Federation [email protected] : [email protected] MAxiM A. Abramov ARTÍCULO RECIBIDO: 20 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2018 Essentuki Institute of Management, Business ARTÍCULO ACEPTADO PARA PUBLICACIÓN: 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2018 and Law. Russian Federation ARTÍCULO PUBLICADO: 28 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2018 [email protected] 172 REVISTA SAN GREGORIO, 2018, No.27,SPECIAL EDITION.DECEMBER (170-181), ISSN: 1390-7247; eISSN: 2528-7907 titudes of citizens in our country is not unex- pected. The researchers of the patriotism’s phenomenon say that it is impossible to build a new strong state, to instill in people an un- derstanding of their civic duty and respect for law, to develop some fruitful and independent foreign and internal policy without it (Bara- nov, 2003). The need to restore the previously lost prin- ciples of peaceful coexistence, as well as the iNTRodUCTioN relevance of the formation of patriotic senti- Phenomenon of patriotism in Russian scien- ments in society were the basis for the adop- ce. Transformation of Russian society, the tion of state programs as “Patriotic Educa- formation of a “new social and political sys- tion of Citizens of the Russian Federation for tem,” which experts today can not clearly de- 2001-2005” (February 16, 2001) and “Patriotic termine whether capitalism or the reform of Education of Citizens of the Russian Federa- the socialist system and a smooth transition tion for 2006 - 2010 years “(July 11, 2005). The to a market state was accompanied by a chan- above programs were designed to form other ge in the content of state ideology. Therefore, ideological attitudes in the positions of Rus- the liberal democrats focused their attention sians. on the need to reconstruct not only the eco- nomic structure of Russian state, but also the When we were studying the place of Rus- worldview. L.M. Drobizheva said that the mo- sian identity in the structure of the social dern Russia, overcoming the consequences of identity of the Dagestan peoples we touched the transition period, determines its position upon the problems of nationalism and patrio- not only on the political and economic vec- tism connected with state-civic identity in tors (with the corresponding transformations our research. Patriotic feelings are an emo- in the social structure). It is important to re- tional component of identity. Hardly anyone construct the ideological system of coordina- likes state institutions. It is often criticized tes according to which the space of changing and show greater or lesser loyalty to them in identities and solidarity, their value-norma- Russia. But you can love the country, people, tive and communication potential is built so this indicator can be interpreted precisely (Drobizheva, 2015). The concept of “patrio- as an emotional element of civic identity (Na- tism” and “patriotic education” were turned tional-civic identities and tolerance. 2007). out to such a transformation. Moreover, these definitions had a nominal connotation in the We proceed from the V.F. Shapovalov’s de- post-Soviet period. finition in the study of patriotism who un- derstands it as love of his country, a sense In the opinion of S.V. Kortunov, the unfair of organic belonging to it, a mutual sense of division of USSR took place for the connivan- belonging to the corresponding community ce and defeat of the democratic forces that that arise and exist between the people of his had grown up from the Soviet elite (more country. Patriotism is a love of the country’s precisely, the denationalised Russian elite), nature and its other characteristics, but it is in which historical Russia lost its original te- more important the attitude to a person to rritories and surrendered its geopolitical po- take a care of preserving his life and health, sitions. They have began the transformation, personal dignity, in an effort to provide con- but then handed over the country to Russian ditions for prosperity and prosperity (Shapo- pseudo-democrats who were deprived a sense valov, 2008). of healthy Russian national identity (Kortu- nov, 2009). There was an ambiguous side to the con- cept of “patriotism” in Russian history. Es- Other events have changed the complex, sence, content and social functions of concept sometimes tragic 90-ies of the last century. were so clearly. The concept is strange to have It was possible to stabilize the economic si- contented hard pressure. “The patriot’s word tuation and as well as the situation in other seems to be used at first rather rarely. This public spheres. Fact of increasing patriotic at- was due to the specific concept of the sta- Lidiya I. Scherbakova, Sergey I. Samygin, Svetlana I. Imgrunt, Petr S. Samygin, Irina V. Velikodnaya, Elena N. Bandurina, Maxim A. Abramov : “Indicators of patriotism’s reproduction as a marker of identification matrix in youth environment of multiethnic society.” 173 te and a person’ place in it. The problem of Patriotic attitudes in the mass conscious- love for the fatherland and therefore for so- ness of the Dagestan peoples. When we stud- ciety was not as an actual in the class state. ying the phenomenon of patriotism, it ne- There are the rights and duties as the rights cessary to identify its essence and content, of its class in it. The concept of “Fatherland” because the ripeness of the state-civic identi- and “state” are as identical in the class state. ty have dependence on their expression. The- Loyalty to the lawful monarch is identical to re are a set of questions in survey question- the loyalty to the fatherland” (Odessky, 2008).
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