Stereotyping of the Don Cossacks in the perception of consumers of folklore-ethnographic tourist and socio-cultural products: to the formulation of the problem

Ekaterina Davidova,Antonina Petrenko,Olga Dudkina,D Rudoy,N Ugrekhelidze,A Olshevskaya

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202127309021

Abstract

Ethnic and social stereotypes are an indicative and multifunctional socio-cultural phenomenon that cannot be considered fully studied either in theoretical or in content-practical terms. The paper compares the results of the analysis of current historical, historiographical and cultural scientific works on Don Cossacks, the study of representations of the culture of Don Cossacks in the tourist and socio-cultural spheres in the Rostov Region (24 objects), a pilot survey (N = 70) of respondents for the reconstruction of ideas about Don Cossacks. In the scientific discourse of recent years about Don Cossacks, there is a tendency to discuss the directed formation of the image of the Cossacks by certain social forces.

Highlights

The youth of the revived Cossacks, attempts to find or form their own identity, as well as the inclusion of the Cossacks in the Russian sociocultural context as a political, military, and ethnocultural force poses researchers with the problem of the representation of the Cossacks in the sociocultural space, the perception of the Cossacks by the population of the region and the country as a whole
The purpose of this work is to build a general configuration of the problem field associated with the stereotyping of the Don Cossacks, which is carried out in representative forms of culture included in socio-cultural activities and tourist practices
To determine the main features of the Don Cossacks, as it appears in socio-cultural representations; To analyze the ideas of ordinary people about the Don Cossacks, to isolate the stereotypical component, if any; to determine the role of socio-cultural representations in the formation of the population's ideas about the Don Cossacks

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Introduction

The youth of the revived Cossacks, attempts to find or form their own identity, as well as the inclusion of the Cossacks in the Russian sociocultural context as a political, military, and ethnocultural force poses researchers with the problem of the representation of the Cossacks in the sociocultural space, the perception of the Cossacks by the population of the region and the country as a whole. It is important to understand what stereotypes of the Cossacks have developed or are developing in Russian society, under the influence of what factors, in whose interests, and what consequences this leads to. This is a wide range of issues that require a preliminary study of the problem field, which is what our study is dedicated to. The purpose of this work is to build a general configuration of the problem field associated with the stereotyping of the Don Cossacks, which is carried out in representative forms of culture included in socio-cultural activities and tourist practices. The object of the study is considered from the standpoint of cognitive cultural studies, which defines stereotypes as cognitive matrices of interpretation, along with style, symbolic systems and, in general, linguistic means

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