ГРАЖДАНСКАЯ ИДЕНТИЧНОСТЬ МОЛОДОГО ПОКОЛЕНИЯ РОССИЯН: СПЕЦИФИКА И ЗАКОНОМЕРНОСТИ СТАНОВЛЕНИЯ

Abstract

The article presents the current research trend in the political science – the study of the identity of a citizen of the country, the peculiarities of its formation – the formation and development of the younger generation, since the political science is on the verge of a new stage in recent history, when the concepts of citizenship and civil society become decisive for the successful development of the political system. In this regard, the article analyzes such important aspects of the problem as the identification of the laws on the formation of civil identity in the younger generation of Russians in modern unstable socio-economic, political conditions and describes the specific features of the development of civil identity as a political concept, determines the influence of socio-cultural transformation in Russia on the formation of the civil identity of the modern young generation. The author attaches particular importance to the role of state power in the development of civic identity of young Russians (educational and youth policy), reveals important meaningful characteristics of the formation of the civic identity of the younger generation in the context of the socio-cultural transformation of modern Russia from phenomenological positions based on an integrative approach, such as: the duality and contradiction of the formation of civic identity among the younger generation in connection with world globalization and social, and cultural transformational processes in Russia; the integrative nature of the process of civil identity formation; the influence of Western ideas of autonomy and collectivist traditions of the Russian mentality on the becoming personality; age-specific characteristics of civic identity formation; structural components of civic identity – cognitive component, value-motivation component and activity component; the impact of social media on the younger generation; personal orientation of a particular person.