Axiological Analysis of Intergenerational Relations in a Globalized Society: Myth and Reality

Svetlana L Shalaeva,Anastasia V Shalaeva

doi:10.5539/res.v7n8p246

Abstract

This article examines the phenomenon of intergenerational relations in contemporary society. The model of intergenerational relations is the basic model of individuals’ social behavior, generations’ relationship and other social communities; it influences the social dynamics in general. The research explores the growing crisis of these relations and social metamorphoses caused by the nowadays society’s dynamic changes. These changes are associated primarily with the transformation of the contemporary person’s values and worldview with the advent and development of the new media. The analysis of the changes suggests the prefigurative nature of contemporary culture, as evidenced by recent studies of mimetic and ritual behavior of today’s children. The article discusses the phenomenon of Indigo children, as a particular confirmation of the crisis of intergenerational relations.

Highlights

Contemporary scholarschip shows dramatically growing interest in the study of the phenomenon of childhood
This article examines the phenomenon of intergenerational relations in contemporary society
The article discusses the phenomenon of Indigo children, as a particular confirmation of the crisis of intergenerational relations

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Introduction

Contemporary scholarschip shows dramatically growing interest in the study of the phenomenon of childhood. The growth of this interest is not so much due to the understanding of the strategic role of childhood in existence, sustainable development and the future of any society, as due to those rapid transformations that occur with the World of Childhood in a rapidly changing world. An adult is a mediator between the child and the sum of social and cultural values, attitudes, norms that defines the conditions of life in a given society and the ability to normally live in it. The relationship of adults and children may be called a dyad, a psychological symbiosis, as it is-a holistic system, a form of organization of joint life and activities, which provides mutual process of socialization for both parties

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