Civil Consciousness Research Articles

Crisis of Civil Consciousness and Decline of Democracy

Crisis of Civil Consciousness and Decline of Democracy

Troy Is Burning: Epic Archetypes

Troy Is Burning: Epic Archetypes

Ценностный профиль осужденных женщин с разным уровнем правового сознания

<p style="text-align: justify;">The article presents the results of the empirical study of the value profile of convicted women demonstrating different levels of legal consciousness. The study was conducted in 2020-2022 on the basis of correctional institutions located in Siberian Federal District. The sample of the study was made up of 1029 convicted women aged 20 to 35 years serving their sentences for the first time. The diagnostic complex included the following techniques: “The Test of Legal and Civil Consciousness” (L.A. Yasyukova), “Differential Scale of Actual Values” (N.A. Samoylik), “The Test of Life Orientations” (D.A. Leontiev). It is empirically proved that the situational value profile of women with legal nihilism is characterized by humanity, optimism, understanding of labor prestige, as well as by a low level of justice and predominance of temporary perspectives presentment in the minds of convicts. The value profile of convicted women with a partial manifestation of legal consciousness is characterized by the semantic fullness of life based on the values of intellectual development, self-development and sociability and is defined as variable. The structure of a stable value profile of convicts with a formed legal consciousness includes responsibility, mannerliness, self-control and conscientiousness. These results can be used in conducting individual counseling and correctional work aimed at forming the value sphere and legal consciousness of women serving sentences in places of deprivation of liberty.</p>

Unification Policy of the State and the Identity of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Nobility in the Light of Belarusian Districts Deputy Instructions in the 1630s and 1640s

This article aims to show the evolution of the civil consciousness of the nobility in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This text focuses on the analysis results of the instructions (in a modern sense) of Belarusian deputies of the nobility in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 1630s and 1640s. Particular emphasis is put on studying the contexts of references to such concepts as ‘the Commonwealth’, ‘Fatherland’, ‘nation’, and ‘Union’. The article concludes that the union state policy of the Commonwealth bore fruit, and the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania increasingly often identified themselves with the civil identity of the Commonwealth while preserving the specificity of the regional self-consciousness.

Доверие, недоверие и фейковые новости в процессе политической легитимизации

The article examines influence of factors of trust, distrust, and fake news on the level of legitimacy of state power and decisions taken. The position of the authors who establish a clear correlation between the level of legitimacy of the government and the level of development of its democratic institutions is disputed. The legitimacy of power is based on the assessment of the conformity of the position of authority and decisions made to the image of power formed in the civil consciousness and shared ideological positions. The dual nature of legitimacy is noted: in accordance with the definition of D. Easton, diffuse and specific types of legitimacy are distinguished. The types of legitimacy differ in terms of the dynamics of changes in their level, plasticity, principles of formation and strengthening. Diffuse legitimacy is based on the concept of trust. Actualization of positions and assessments of participants in the political process takes place through political communications. Changes in the communication sphere of politics, dictated by the revolutionary development of the Internet technologies, necessitate a qualitative reassessment of the role of factors of trust and distrust in the process of communication between the government and society. Trust and distrust should be considered as autonomous political phenomena that have both a positive and negative impact on the level of legitimacy. Fake news is becoming an irremediable «tax» on political communications between the government and society. The specifics of their formation and dissemination, as well as the goals pursued by the authors of fake news, go beyond the scope of political regulation, therefore, the main work to combat their negative effects should be focused not on refuting or blocking news, but on the formation of universal media literacy.

Historiosophical Problems in Russian Thought in the Modern Time

The article deals with the historiosophical problems of Russian thought in the Modern time. The historiosophical problems of Russian thought were determined by the peculiarities of spiritual and socio-political life, the development of national and civil consciousness of society, the formation of the intelligentsia. The major historiosophical problems of Russian thought since the XIX century have been the reflection on the fate and role of Russia in the global historical process; conceptualization of the meaning of history; analysis of social development options; the definition of progress criteria; the clarification of the role of an individual and people in history, understanding of the meaning of human existence. A number of historiosophical issues were identified in ideological searches of earlier times. Historiosophical ideas also influenced the development of historical science in Russia. The history of philosophy was interconnected with ontology and anthropology, gravitating towards metahistory. One of the most relevant problems for the Russian historiosophy was the meaning of history, which attracted the attention of historians, philosophers and other cultural leaders, in the context of the essence, content, criteria, driving forces of historical development; specifics of historical knowledge; political and moral significance of historical memory. The problem of the meaning of history was often revealed in moral and religious contexts, in connection with spiritual and moral problems of the meaning of human life. In the works of Russian thinkers, the remarkable ideas were expressed about socio-anthropological and moral meaning of history, which retain their significance to modern philosophical and historical research, to the spiritual and value-based self-determination of an individual and society.

ГРАЖДАНСКОЕ ОБЩЕСТВО КАК ПРАВОВОЙ ФЕНОМЕН: ТЕОРЕТИКО-ПРАВОВОЙ АНАЛИЗ

The article considers civil society as a legal phenomenon, gives its theoretical legal analysis. The following conceptual ideas that make up the essence of this phenomenon are distinguished: the discrepancy between the state and society, the primacy of society in relation to the state, the ability to self-organization, socio-political contextuality, opposition to the state, non-universality, multilevel system, coordinated activity of various social groups, the presence of civil consciousness. It is noted that the civil legal consciousness is permeated with the ideals of individualism, democracy, freedom, formal equality, citizenship, and its foundation is based on the inviolability of private property, human rights and freedoms.

Scientific Evidence of a Clash between Das Sollen and Das Sein in the book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P Huntington

Conflicts between nations that adhere to distinct worldviews will continue to shape the course of world politics in the foreseeable future. Culture, not politics or economics, will drive future wars on a global scale; these two factors are becoming increasingly irrelevant. This battle, in turn, will be the most significant symptom that replaces the polarization of world ideology into communist and capitalism, together with the collapse of the governmental system in the vast majority of Eastern European countries. The following are some of the factors that, according to Huntington, would cause conflicts between different civilizations in the future of world politics: 1). Differences in culture, tradition, and ethnicity, as well as differences in people's perspectives on how humans should relate to God, are all part of what distinguishes one civilization from another. These philosophical differences are at the root of the fact that people of different civilizations have different perspectives on how humans should relate to God. 2). In the sense that the interaction between various peoples and civilizations is continuing to rise, we might say that the world is continuing to become a smaller place. When people connect with one another on a deeper level, their knowledge of their own civilization grows, and they become more attuned to the distinctions that exist between their culture and those of other civilizations. 3). People all across the world have been uprooted from their deep-seated roots of local identity as a consequence of the process of economic modernization and social development. This has occurred as a result of globalization. 4). The Western world has played a dual role, which has contributed to the development of civilization consciousness. This may be understood as a stronger sense of love for a belief in the identity of civilization that has been going on for a long time.

The role of social-oriented NPos in shaping the foundations of a New Citizenship in Russia

The article is devoted to the concept of the new Russian citizenship and its value-ideological foundations, which are civil activism, civil responsibility, and civil control. It is considered how non-profit organizations through their activities form and consolidate the value of these categories in the minds of citizens and in what ways they influence the spread of public control practices. Based on the dialectical approach, the study of domestic and foreign literature, as well as the analysis of cases, the author aims to establish a link between the civil initiatives and programs implemented with social- oriented NPOs, and the political and ideological values of Russian society that form the general civil consciousness.

International Experience in Preventing Corruption as a Vector for Creating a National Anti-Corruption Strategy in Ukraine

Given the European choice of Ukraine, there is an urgent need to create and implement a new anti-corruption policy, considering the positive aspects of the existing international experience. The relevance of the scientific investigation is conditioned by the fact that the existing problem of countering corruption is not only national but also global. The purpose of the study is to consider the international experience of preventing corruption torts to implement them in Ukrainian legislation. The methodological basis of the study is a system of methods and techniques of scientific cognition, namely: system analysis, comparative and implementation method, statistical method, and retrospective method. The study provides a systematic review of international concepts of prevention of corruption torts. It is noted that in the context of globalisation processes taking place in modern society, the need to implement positive foreign experience in the system of the current legislation of Ukraine becomes extremely relevant. A thorough analysis of a number of measures taken by leading states that are designed to prevent corruption offences was also carried out. The positive experience of states with the lowest level of corruption is positioned and ways to achieve such a result are indicated. The study analyses the anti-corruption strategies of such countries as Singapore, the Netherlands, Belgium, Israel, the United States, the Slovak Republic, Germany, and Poland. Attention is drawn to the fact that in countries with a low level of corruption, repressive measures are combined with a comprehensive elimination of the determinants of corruption offences in models of preventing corruption. The paper states that the latest strategy for preventing corruption requires the development of active cooperation between state bodies, law enforcement agencies, and civil society in order to prevent and counteract corruption torts. At the same time, an important determinant of preventing corruption torts is the growth of civil consciousness. It is emphasised that corruption offences are an extremely dangerous phenomenon inherent in all states of the modern world. It is revealed that a number of foreign countries have managed to create a modern and effective algorithm for preventing and countering corruption offences. The paper highlights the main determinants of corruption prevention that are approved by the international community, namely: normative regulation of the activities of civil servants, the establishment of a clear system of legal responsibility for violating the requirements of anti-corruption legislation, transparency in the professional activities of officials, the introduction of social programmes and educational campaigns on corruption topics. The provisions presented in the paper can become an effective basis for building a successful anti-corruption policy in Ukraine.

Thoughts on the Teaching of Art and Design in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

The advent of artificial intelligence has transformed the original mode of material and spiritual production. In view of autonomous machine intelligence, artificial intelligence has become a “production subject” and a new “subject” in the production of cultural intelligence, complete with legal social identity. The visual products produced by intelligent agents are not only the reproduction of the original vitality of some originals. More precisely, their works are the continuation of the concept and style of a designer. In a broad sense, they are the reconstruction of human civilization consciousness. The works produced by artificial intelligence mechanically create the material and conceptual parts of visual products, which directly leads to production mode transformation. The transition from “production tool” to “production subject” ensues a new thinking in the teaching of Art and Design courses. This paper analyzes the shift of production mode in the era of artificial intelligence and the trend changes epitomized by the characteristics of the Art and Design specialty, so as to put forward suggestions and thoughts on the development direction of existing curriculum teaching.

The Civilization Consciousness and Imagination Landscape of Guangdong in the Late Ch’ing Dynasty and the Early Republic of China: A Case Study of Guangdong Education Museum

The Civilization Consciousness and Imagination Landscape of Guangdong in the Late Ch’ing Dynasty and the Early Republic of China: A Case Study of Guangdong Education Museum

Tradition Of Music Festivals In The Subcontinent

This Article covers certain classical music 'Baitaks' and their immortal affect over classical music traditions all over subcontinent peninsule. These Baitaks have over the years been inspiring the evolution and innovation of classical music. Various known and unknown places and areas, cities and towns formed these Baitaks representing cultural awareness and civilization consciousness through their gharana Gayeks, and also became the mode of conversational determination towards classical musics. In these Baitaks, were held grand Gaykee competetions, and music Music Gurus and Pandits nourished students. Now these Baitaks are losing their thread and their being is at state-Governments should patronize to save these tradtional Centres of Culture and Music and come forward to prevent otherwise the indispensable impending extinction.

The civil norm building role of news journalism in post-civil war settings

This paper seeks to provide an answer to the question of the role that news journalism can play in the building of civil peace as peaceful cooperation in post-civil war settings. Alternatively expressed, how it can utilise its communicative capacity to facilitate and contribute to contextually and culturally appropriate versions of sustainable peace within civil society. Peacebuilding tool kits are wide and varied and often narrowly focus on news journalism as a political actor and its role in political life. We would like to shift the focus away from the ‘political’ to the role that news journalism can play in the (re-)building of an associative and cooperative civil society. Specifically, we believe that news journalism should and can develop for itself an ethos of civil norm building that aims to stimulate a civil consciousness in its audiences which is indispensable for the practical application of the categories of civil norms of peaceful cooperation in everyday life. To understand how such an ethos can be developed we need to recognise three features that are necessary for news journalism to achieve its potential as a civil norm builder: (1) its transformative communicative capacity, (2) its institutional and organisational commitment toward news reporting that exemplifies peaceful cooperation in everyday life and (3) the way it can concretely undertake the application of editorial guidelines in post-civil war settings which exemplify the three basic categories of civil norms of peaceful cooperation: (a) assent to civil peace, (b) substantive civility and (c) building civil capacity and civil competencies.

Prediction of social responsibility in future psychologists based on the characteristics of their value orientations

Values are an integral part of culture, a person perceives the world through his/her own system of values and value orientations. In this paper, an attempt is made to identify the manifestations of the components of social responsibility of future psychologists based on the system of their value orientations. The aim of the study is to dentify values that have a more universal and predictive power in relation to the manifestation of social responsibility. Research methods. The linear multiple regression analysis was performed for each of the six established factors of the understanding social responsibility by future psychologists. Values (Schwartz’s model of values) acted as predictor variables, and indicators on social responsibility factors (the model of social responsibility by O. Kovalchuk) acted as dependent variables. Results of the research. To predict the indicators of social responsibility of future psychologists based on the characteristics of their value orientations on factor 1 - civil consciousness – the significant values such as rules, universalism, public safety, achievements, traditions, dependence, which have positive links with factor 1, instead , interpersonal conformity and resources are negatively correlated with this factor. Six independent variables have significant links with factor 2 - legal consciousness: “Rules”, “Dependence”, “Universalism”, “Social Security”, “Resources”, “Tolerance”. The sixvalues of “Rules”, “Dominance”, “Universalism”, “Personal Security”, “Autonomy of Action”, “Interpersonal Conformity” predict factor 3 -reflection on the consequences of one’s actions. Factor 4 - moral consciousness - is predicted by six values: “Universalism”, “Personal Security”, “Dependence”, “Rules”, “Autonomy of Action”, “Dominance”. It is proved that the seven values such as “Universalism”, “Tolerance”, “Dependence”, “Traditions”, “Personal Security”, “Achievements”, “Resources” are predictors of factor 5 - Altruism. Conclusion. Thus, it is proved that social responsibility can be predicted by such values as universalism, security, care, interpersonal conformity and dependence.

ПОЛИТОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ АСПЕКТ СТАНОВЛЕНИЯ ГРАЖДАНСКОЙ ИДЕНТИЧНОСТИ И ОСОБЕННОСТИ СОЦИОКУЛЬТУРНОЙ ТРАНСФОРМАЦИИ В СОВРЕМЕННОЙ РОССИИ

The article presents an important area of research into the formation of civic identity in the younger generation, where the focus is put on the personality and features of forming and developing civil consciousness in a situation of socio-economic and political instability caused by transformation processes in all spheres of life in modern Russia. The article aims at a political scientific analysis of the socio-cultural factors in the formation of the civil identity of the young Russians during the period of social and cultural transformation in modern Russia. The article emphasizes the role of state power in the development of civil consciousness of the Russians (educational and youth policy), presents a study to identify factors that influence the formation of civic identity, according to teachers of educational establishments and university lecturers. The issue of the Internet influence on the developing personality is outlined, as the features of the online social communications era are the displacement of the traditional value scale and fundamental social structures of personal development, constant “experimentation” of the younger generation's own identity, the predominance of the subjective component of identity in the overall structure of the younger generation's self-consciousness. Therefore, family, education, youth policy of the state, and public institutions are the space of systemic formation of the youth civic identity, aimed at the preservation of historical memory, culture, and traditions of the state. The author proves that only systemic integration of all subjects in the country's civil society development, while in the long period of transformation, as well as the interaction of all participants of the process in the integral national system of forming the civic identity of the young Russians, will allow to have a developed, active and stable civil society.

Samara banner as a cultural code

The paper deals with the phenomenon of the Samara banner as a cultural code. It is emphasized that the period of the second half of the 19th early 20th centuries is increasingly considered by researchers as a source of elements transmitted and perceived as modern cultural codes. Epistemological, psychological, sociological and information-communication approaches to understanding cultural codes are presented, with the help of which ideas about the unity, cohesion of society are formed and the social uncertainty of modernity is reduced. The period of the Russian-Turkish war is characterized as a period of the cultural code formation associated with the activation of national self-identification, growth of patriotism, formation of civil consciousness and civil society. The process of formation and consolidation of the cultural code inherent in the modern inhabitant of the Samara province, which was influenced by notable socio-political, cultural and religious events of both the past and the present, is analyzed. Dynamics is noted in assessing the role of the Samara Banner phenomenon for various periods of Russian history. The authors give an example of systemic involvement of the younger generation of the Samara Region residents in the history of their native land, through acquaintance with the history of the Samara banner, presented in the textbooks Stories on the history of the Samara Region and History of the Samara Region.

СИТУАТИВНІ ВПРАВИ НА ЗАНЯТТЯХ З УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ МОВИ ЗА ПРОФЕСІЙНИМ СПРЯМУВАННЯМ ЯК ЗАСІБ ФОРМУВАННЯ ЦІННІСНИХ ОРІЄНТАЦІЙ ЗДОБУВАЧІВ ВИЩОЇ ОСВІТИ

The article is sanctified to the pressing questions of educational-educator tasks of employments after Ukrainian for the students of higher educational establishments. A question of becoming of civil consciousness and high spirituality of personality is extremely actual.  utstanding value for realization of professional activity, a competence that is based on common to all mankind values has for the decision of organizational questions. This competence is formed on employments after the educational components of humanitarian aspiration, among that a leading role belongs to language disciplines. This competence is formed on employments after the educational components of humanitarian aspiration, among that a leading role belongs to language disciplines. The value of the mother tongue it is difficult to over-estimate, she is the unique means of education of man, forming of her the valued orientations. The use of situation exercises can become the effective means of development of broadcasting and thinking of bread-winners of higher education. Aim of the article – to light up the basic questions of the use of situation exercises as to the means of forming of the valued orientations of personality of bread-winner of higher education on employments after Ukrainian after professional aspiration. In the article a question is affected about the use of situation exercises on employments after Ukrainian after professional aspiration. The role of situation exercises is found out in forming of lingually-communicative competence of personality of bread-winner of education and forming of her the valued orientations. It is onsidered concept «speech situation", «situation exercise". Description is given to methodology, functional features and examples of the use of situation exercises are made on employments. Research results showed that employments with the use of situation exercises assisted  forming of personality of student, her the valued reference-points, improvement of communicative qualities of broadcasting, increase of general culture, forming of moral factors, unindifference to history and language of native people. A scientific novelty and practical meaningfulness of research are certain: scientifically reasonable methodical principles of the use of situation exercises on employments after Ukrainian after professional aspiration; methodology of the use of such exercises is worked out and tested during the prosecution of language material, verification of the offered methodology, that assists the conscious mastering the students of educational material,is conducted, can be inculcated in an educational-educator process, used for perfection of the programs and textbooks. The prospects of further researches are also outlined in the marked industry.

EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AS A FACTOR OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF A TEACHER IN THE ERA OF DIGITALIZATION

The value of the digital educational environment is that it contributes to the formation of many of the most important qualities and skills that are in demand by the society of the XXI century and determine the personal and social status of a modern person: information activity and media literacy, the ability to think globally, the ability to continue education and solve creative problems, the willingness to work in a team, communication skills and professional mobility, civil consciousness and legal ethics are brought up.

СULTURAL LIFE OF ZAPORIZHZHIA OBLAST SHOWN IN THE LOCAL MEDIA DURING THE LATE STALINISM

Based on the analysis of modern historiography, resources from oblast periodicals and archival documents, the article reveals media methods of influence on the consciousness of Zaporizhzhia people through the prism of the cultural life of the region in the late Stalinism period. Using the approach of generalisation, the author characterises the activity of the most fundamental civil and cultural institutions in the oblast. With the use of the benchmarking method, it was possible to identify similarities and differences of the cultural scene in the regional towns and villages. During the research, the author reveals the direct influence and control of the Soviet authorities on media aimed at undertaking the manipulative actions with the civil consciousness. The article proves that propaganda of government commitments and interests among the population reflected in press, literature, on cinema screens, as well as in the radio programmes. The Soviet power, applying the function of media, facilitated the creation of positive «virtual» reality which was quite different from the every-day life of the post-war period. Furthermore, the author attempts to show that covering the information in media regarding the activity of cultural institutions, organisation and conduction of pertinent events used to oblige population to choose options for rest suggested by the government. Besides, the research results demonstrate distinguished traits of town and village cultural institutions functioning that can be explained by the underdeveloped infrastructure of the village one. The Party Control for the civil recreation used to spread across all age groups and population segments. The propagandist element that undertook influence on public opinion was widely applied to the work activity of cultural and educational institutions. Cultural life in Zaporizhzhia oblast during the 1945-53s was exposed to affection by media, supported by the Soviet authority, that resulted in support of the moral state of regional residents regarding the refurbishment of the economy and industrial sector although without considering personal encouragement.