ГНЕВ И ЭМПАТИЯ: ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ИДЕНТИЧНОСТИ В ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИХ СООБЩЕСТВАХ РАЗНЫХ ПОКОЛЕНИЙ

Abstract

In the article are considered questions of modern political processes within the framework of concepts that focus on the formation of individual and collective identity, conscious or unconscious, expressed in concentrated form, correlation themselves to certain social groups on the basis of different criteria. Within the theoretical approaches of F. Fukiyama, J. Gold-stone, and A. Hockshild, the author examines the emotional component of the group identification process and its significance for self-determination. The analysis of empirical data (observations and interviews) collected over the past six years on power coalitions and protest communities in Siberian cities leads to a preliminary conclusion about the formation of a new type of political identity. Its characteristic features are an increased emphasis on individual and collective emotional experiences that take precedence over traditional class, ethnic and territorial demands and goals, a focus on empathy rather than anger, a search for allies by feeling, not the interests. In the coming years, political generations will change by naturally and since the new generation was formed in fundamentally different conditions, got a different socialization than their predecessors, another serious transformation of social and political institutions is possible.