Концепт "Будущее России" в сознании молодежи в условиях неопределенности (на материале результатов массового опроса)

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the psychological and linguistic analysis of the implementation of the concept “Future of Russia”. The material is the data of a mass survey of 1780 students of secondary vocational schools. The features of the linguistic verbalization of the concept were identified out on the material of the reactions received to the open question “Russia of the future in 5 years …”. In the study, a modeling method was used, which consists in describing the structure of the concept in the form of cognitive features that differ in frequency and reflect the features of the perception of the concept. The content analysis of the verbal reactions of the respondent was also used; the answers were categorized according to semantic similarity. The study contains an account of the emotional component of the image of the future of Russia. The answers of the subjects to the question “When I think about the future, I feel ...” were analyzed. Correlation analysis, frequency analysis (categories) and contingency analysis (categories) were used to identify the features of the relationship between anxiety and characteristics of the image of the future. The analysis showed that the key representatives of the concept “Future of Russia” are the lexemes future, Russia and its synonyms: country, power, state, empire. The most common word is the word country – the answers mentioned it 180 times. Most of the received replies represent the future of Russia, but do not nominate it. The frequency analysis showed that most of the participants (75%) are optimistic about the future of the country; 48% of the answers about the possible future were abstract and generalized. A positive assessment of the future of the country is most often expressed in the choice of adjectives – definitions for the core representatives of the concept, as well as through the use of complex adjectives, forms of degrees of comparison and comparative constructions, adjectives with the prefix non, etc. Despite the fact that young people are optimistic about the future of the country, the categorical structure of the emotional image of the future showed that the construction of the future is associated with negative experiences of the events taking place in the country. The distribution of the respondents’ answers to an open question (1786 answers) “When I think about the future, I feel ...” is as follows: 41% of the answers are not informative; among the rest, 49.6% experience positive emotions (curiosity, interest, anticipation, joy, happiness, delight, calmness, excitement) and 50.4% negative ones (apathy, sadness, sadness, fear, melancholy, anxiety).