Дискурс родительства в пространстве современной социокультурной реальности

Abstract

Under the modern sociocultural reality, parenthood is highly prioritised among the issues of education of children and their integration into the social space. The positioning of parenthood in the framework of public discourse suggests a so-called ‘parenthood turn’ where parenthood is the key to understanding and addressing the widest range of issues related to the social identity of personality. The purpose of this article is to examine the main parenthood implementation patterns existing in the space of contemporary culture, and to research into publicity and privacy in the context of each of the concerned patterns. The methodological basis of the study is represented by systemic, ethno-psychological, and phenomenological approaches allowing us to analyse the parenthood phenomenon in terms of super-individual and subjective-personal determination, and to highlight discursive parenthood patterns implementable within the space of contemporary culture. The article covers such concepts as ‘traditional’ and ‘contemporary’ parenthood. The main markers characterising these concepts have been presented. The mobility of the modern sociocultural reality, the transparency of national and cultural boundaries sets a number of prerequisites that change the sociocultural perception of parenthood. As transmittable within the framework of public discourse, these prerequisites at the level of personal choice are implementable throughout the range of possible patterns of parenthood. The diversity and variability of the parenthood experience implementation implies the extension of boundaries of parenthood normativity in culture. That said, the normativity criteria shall be set up both on the basis of external social-demographic, economical, and other prerequisites, and much more on the maturity of inner attitudes of the parent understanding and accepting the permanency of the parenthood experience, and taking on the responsibility for the freedom assumed under this permanency.