Regional identity in the minds of young people in Siberia and the Far East

Abstract

Currently, in both Russia and the world, the globalization is extending. The worldwide information field is in the process of formation, and many developed communities are going through blurring. At the same time, the new reasons for people to unite into the groups are arriving, and new communities tend to appear. The dynamic development of such term as identity had created numerous approaches and ways to define it, based on social, cultural and psychological peculiarities. The situation is common, in which the individuals that exist in the same social environment own many different identities, forming their bonds according to their needs. The problem of identity in Russia in particular is nevertheless acute, remaining open to discussion. The regions of the Russian Federation are more diverse due to the natural and territorial differences, as much as historical and social ones. Thus, Siberia and Far East are much more different than the European part of Russia in terms of social, ethnical and cultural aspects, therefore, the self-presentation of people also tends to differ. The goal of this research is to find the dominating identity among the student youth of Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Districts, to estimate the correlations in different types of identity, to shape the whole picture of self-identification among school and university students. The mass sociological study provides the objective and precise data on value-based cultural orientation inside the community under study, and to collect massive data for further analysis. The results of this research are to help and define the local specifics regarding social-political self-identification.