Abstract
The relevance of the study is that the models of justice in American folklore have never been considered. This work aims at revealing the peculiarities and content of the concept of justice in American folklore and since the American folklore has been made up of the folklore of various ethno-social groups that make up American society, this study aims at revealing the semantic differences in the models of justice of the different races, ethnicities, and cultures that comprise the USA. The research was carried out within the framework of philosophical comparativism, while the approach was analytical-deductive and comparative-historical. The methodological basis of the study was the principle of identifying differences in similarities. I used the method of critical selection of sources as well as the method of content analysis of tales, myths and legends of the largest American ethnic and racial groups, namely Native Americans, African Americans, and European immigrants. The results of the study demonstrate differences in the content of the models of justice of different American ethnic and social groups. The analysis allowed me to create a general formula for the American justice model and the functions of justice in society. This work provides a better understanding of the thinking and worldview of American social groups and American society as a whole. The scientific novelty of the study is the identification of the contents of models of justice in a multi-ethnic American society. The practical significance of the results is that they can and should be applied in the dialogue of cultures. In further research, it is necessary to continue studying the models of justice of different ethnic and social groups and to determine the optimal interethnic models of interaction based on justice.
Highlights
Many categories of ethnic thinking, psychology, and philosophy are reflected in folklore
This work aims at revealing the peculiarities and content of the concept of justice in American folklore and since the American folklore has been made up of the folklore of various ethno-social groups that make up American society, this study aims at revealing the semantic differences in the models of justice of the different races, ethnicities, and cultures that comprise the USA
The objective of this study is to conduct a content analysis of the folklore of the largest ethnic groups that make up a significant part of American society, namely Native Americans, African Americans, first settlers, multi-ethnic European migrants, and the descendants of each, and modern American folklore
Summary
Many categories of ethnic thinking, psychology, and philosophy are reflected in folklore. Revealing the content of justice in folk tales, I rely on such concepts as truth [17], equality or taking a position in the natural hierarchy, equal rights, freedom and responsibility, the possibility of the development of races and ethnic groups in evolution, a careful attitude to generations and natural diversity, and resistance to oppression [17]. I aim at revealing the semantic differences in the models of justice of different races, ethnicities, and cultures that comprise the United States in the process of the formation of American folklore during the development of the American society. The folklore of the above-mentioned ethnic and racial groups is chosen as the material for the study since folklore preserves and reflects the worldview, thinking, norms and values, concepts of truth and falsehood, the models of good and evil, and cultural universals of the ethnic group. The subject of the study is the models of justice in the representation of the ethnic and racial groups that make up American society
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