Abstract
The article touches upon the problem of the crisis of national-state identity of young Russian citizens. Digitalization fundamentally changes the functioning and reproduction of the culture, which underlies group, ethnic, national, and state identity. These changes may cause significant risks of destabilizing the state and its main institutions. The authors discuss the role of educational institutions in the reproduction and formation of new social values among young people and the following formation of the national-state identity. The empirical part of the study is aimed to identify the basis of national-state identity, which is the structure and content of social ideas about Russia among various groups of users of social networks aged 14–35 years, selected according to their gender, age, and educational background. The article presents the results of the empirical study of respondents’ social representations about Russia. It explains the correlation between the national-state identity and social representations of one’s country and indicates the structural-functional and contentmorphological characteristics of the social ideas of young people about Russia. It also reveals the differences in the social representations of young people from different population groups. The results make it possible to clarify the understanding of the pattern of Russian young people’s social thinking, which is responsible for the choice of identification images and predetermines the strength and direction of political attitudes that affect the political stability of Russia.
Highlights
The problem of national-state identity is one of the most important among the problems that humanity faces in the 21st century
The Ukrainian political elite, which proclaimed independence, inevitably had to detach itself from the symbolic list associated with the history of the Soviet Union and Russia, create new heroic events and heroes, and oppose a new image of “us” to the image of “them” represented by Russia
Educational institutions performing two main functions. The latter function includes the formation of citizens with national identity, who are ready to support their state for the sake of the common good [22]
Summary
The problem of national-state identity is one of the most important among the problems that humanity faces in the 21st century. One of the most important is the educational institution, through which the state has the opportunity and is obliged to pursue a targeted policy in the field of identity, relying on both traditional values and ideological constructs. The Ukrainian political elite, which proclaimed independence, inevitably had to detach itself from the symbolic list associated with the history of the Soviet Union and Russia, create new heroic events and heroes, and oppose a new image of “us” to the image of “them” represented by Russia. Ukrainian children learn heroic events of the struggle of the Directorate of Ukraine for independence and the activities of S. The transformation is possible due to perceptions’ speculation, uncertainty, and remoteness [6: 91], creating prerequisites for instability, uncertainty of a person
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