Abstract
The article summarizes the results of sociological surveys of all-Russian and ethnic identity. The author concludes that in conditions of relative weakness of civil structures and political culture of participation, all-Russian identity is based on a wide range of socio-cultural sources. Ethnic identity and culture of trust play an important role among them. All-Russian and ethnic identities (mainly ethnic identity of Russians as the majority of the country) mutually support and nourish each other. Emotional involvement and the inspiring impulse of the state-civil Russian identity are provided and supported by the participation of feelings, perceptions, motivations that are part of the ethnic (ethnocultural) identity complex. Attitudes of interethnic tolerance act as a connecting link between the processes of strengthening ethnic identity and the formation of state-civil identity. Generalized trust (to people in general) and to people you know (to neighbors, colleagues, friends), as well as the skills of interethnic tolerance, can make a great contribution to the formation of national civil unity. These components form a bridging social capital (according to R. Putnam), aimed at involving all citizens of the country into a single field of civil integration. An important conclusion of the research is that generalized trust in all study regions favors the formation of an all-Russian identity and interethnic tolerance. The sociocultural basis of all-Russian identity must be strengthened by political categories of self-determination, including legal equality and respect for the law, which gain weight along with the development of civil society and stable traditions of political participation.
Highlights
The article summarizes the results of sociological surveys
all-Russian identity is based on a wide range of socio-cultural sources
An important conclusion of the research is that generalized trust in all studied regions favors the formation
Summary
РЫЖОВА Светлана Валентиновна – кандидат социологических наук, ведущий научный сотрудник Института социологии Федерального научно-исследовательского центра РАН В статье обобщаются результаты социологических исследований российской и этнической идентичностей. Что в условиях относительной слабости гражданских структур и политической культуры участия формирующаяся российская идентичность опирается на широкий круг социокультурных источников, в числе которых этническая идентичность, межэтническая толерантность и культура доверия.
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