Sociocultural Practical Aspects Of Youth Patriotism Formation

Abstract

The paper analyses sociocultural practical aspects of patriotism formation, and the demand for forms of youth patriotism formation. Patriotism has been always playing a special role in spiritual life of people in economic, political, social and cultural aspects. In some sense, patriotism is foundation of statesmanship, guarantee of effective functioning of the whole system of social and state institutes. Analysis of theoretical literature, positive experience and secondary analysis of questionnaires allowed concluding that youth requires patriotic education in cultural institutions using both traditional and modern forms of education. The authors believe that preservation and continuation of culture, history, national and spiritual unity can be provided by considering patriotism as an element of culture. Hence, one can use national topoi and images, Genio Loci, language as the voice of national nature, national games. The age of globalization and Europeanisation reformats values of Russia into social and cultural degradation and thus characterizes the absence of patriotism and total indifference of citizens regarding the future of their country. This was also facilitated by the transformation of value orientation in the 1990s when such historically developed values as love to the fatherland, duty to the homeland, volunteer service to the country ceased to be fundamental for Russian people. Came to the fore material wealth born by liberal ideology; material values became dominating over spiritual wealth. It could be especially observed in value orientation of younger generation; collectivism was forced out by individualism; the idea of empathy ceded to egocentrism.