Youth values in the context of traditions and innovations

Abstract

The article analyzes the values of the younger generation in the context of the relationship between continuity and progress in the development of traditions and considers traditional values and how they are related to the development of "new" values and young people’s worldview. The relation of tradition to innovation is comprehended, and the existing definitions of tradition and the role of its functions are analyzed. The paper defines the role of mass communications and their influence on the formation of the value world of the younger generation; factors for the formation of viable generations and the spread of the principles of viability to all spheres of social life are identified. The article deals with a complex of ideological, conceptual, theoretical, and socio-cultural issues related to the socio-philosophical and cultural aspects, as well as to the understanding of political socialization and culture as an integral characteristic of the social sphere of life of modern Kazakhstani society. The genesis, structure, dynamics, institutional forms, and normative value content of the political socialization and culture of the Kazakhstan youth, conditioned by national traditions and political culture, are analyzed.