Youth views about the future of the country in the projection of culture

Abstract

The article analyzes the connection between the meanings formed in the cultural space of young people and their ideas about goals “significant for the future of the country” (“affordable qualified healthcare as a guarantee of a high quality of life”, “family as the basis of confidence and security”, “living space as environment for a comfortable life”, “labor as a source of material well-being”, “balance of rights and responsibilities of citizens as a factor in the consolidation of society”, “education as a condition for social advancement”, active civil society as a condition for democratization in the country”, “power capable of ensuring the achievement the listed goals as a guarantee of the country’s sustainable development”). The analysis revealed that the complete identification of young people with the semantic characteristics of the basic culture, regardless of its types, correlates with the maximum degree of support for a certain goal that is significant for the future of the country. This fact is considered as evidence of the integration of the carriers of basic culture into Russian society, their sociocultural involvement in the changing reality. Denial by young people of belonging to the basic culture through its specific type predominantly leads to a slight decrease in the degree of support for goals that are significant for the future. It was found that both acceptance and denial of subcultural meanings regulate support for these goals to a lesser extent. The authors suggest that ideas about socially significant goals are in closer connection with broad layers of culture mastered in the process of socialization and are less determined by socio-psychological and sociocultural characteristics determined by age.