Sociocultural Experience Research Articles

Distance Educational Technologies in the Socio-Cultural Space of a Preschooler

The article actualizes the issues of implementation of distance educational technologies in the socio-cultural space of preschoolers. The purpose of the study is to theoretically substantiate, systematize the possibilities of using distance educational technologies in the development of the socio-cultural space of a modern preschooler. The author has analyzed the theoretical literature on the problems of sociocultural space, sociocultural experience of preschoolers, digitalization of preschool education. The sociocultural space of preschoolers’ development is represented by the world of adults, which simulates the socio-cultural situation of the child’s development, the space of subjects and relations, and the space of moral, ethical and legal norms, as well as the space of interaction between organizations and the family as the main institution of the child’s socialization. Distance educational technologies are more focused on meeting the needs of the child in communication with parents and loved ones; develop trusting relationships; contribute to the strengthening of family ties, since they reduce the forced disunity of generations; create a positive image of family and family upbringing. Theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature, interpretation of modern research of the problem has allowed the author of the article to systematize the possibilities of using distance educational technologies in the socio-cultural space of preschoolers. To determine the effectiveness of the use of distance learning technologies in the socio-cultural space of a preschooler, a SWOT analysis of web services of preschool educational organizations was applied, and a survey method was used to identify the degree of satisfaction of teachers and parents with the implemented distance format in kindergarten. Keywords: distance educational technologies, preschooler, preschool education, sociocultural space, sociocultural experience

Formation of socio-cultural traditions in Uzhansk National Nature Park

The purpose of the article is to study the formation of socio-cultural traditions as an effective mechanism through which to preserve the cultural, spiritual, and material experience of previous generations, as well as the reproduction of ethnocultural values ​​in the cultural heritage of society. The methodology consists of the application of general scientific and special research methods. The scientific novelty of the obtained results lies in the study of the formation of socio-cultural traditions on the basis of Uzhansky National Nature Park for the preservation of socio-cultural experience as one of the ways of development of modern society. Conclusions. Given the above, it should be noted that the formation of socio-cultural traditions in the population on the example of Uzhansky National Nature Park, is one of the components of modern cultural development, which plays an important role in preserving the spiritual and material experience of previous generations. Tourist cultural and educational activities are aimed at creating comprehensive conditions for the formation of personality, self-realization of the spiritual potential of man. Socio-cultural traditions are formed not only by the acquisition of historical-cultural experience, but also by modern socio-cultural practices used by people, and the formation of a harmonious society will depend on this.

The Concept of Spontaneity and its Relationship with the Individual Characteristics of Personality

In this article, the authors consider the concept of spontaneity and the relationship of this characteristic with such individual personality characteristics as locus of control, autonomy, tolerance to uncertainty, creativity, self-regulation, flexibility in communication and spontaneity itself. The authors conduct an experiment that allows to trace this relationship. The research involved 205 people between the ages of 18 and 40, including 125 people living in Ukraine and 80 people living and studying abroad. The Ukrainian study group consisted of 82 women and 43 men. The group of foreign researchers consisted of 52 women and 28 men. To study the impact on the spontaneity of the sociocultural experience of the individual, representatives of other communities aged 18–39 were involved. The sample of foreign respondents was divided into 4 groups: countries in Europe, countries in Asia and Africa, CIS countries and other countries in the world 80 people in total. In the study, the authors conclude that spontaneity does not exist separately from other personality characteristics, is not an independent personal property that develops according to its own laws, but is closely connected with many important personality formations and structures, and in order to understand how these connections function, it is not enough to investigate spontaneity separately from other personality traits.

“The Night of the AdEaters”: Pelevin and Baudrillard

The relevance of this work is substantiated by the fact that advertising as a special language of communication of modern society becomes the subject of research in different human sciences. Culturology, as complex field of humanities knowledge that encompasses sociocultural experience of the people reflected in traditions and norms, customs and laws, representations, assessments and actions, also studies various cultural phenomena. The author pursues the goal to interpret the phenomenon of popularity of advertising as a specific marker of consumer society. For achieving the set goal, analysis is conducted on the phenomenon of durability and popularity of the French show The Night of the AdEaters”. Research methodology is comprised of descriptive and systematic analysis of empirical facts in examining the role of advertising in postmodern society. Comparative method is used for drawing parallels between the works of J. Baudrillard and V. Pelevin from the perceptive of their criticism of consumer society. The author analyzes and characterizes modern consumer society, transformation of human values, and the important role allotted to advertising plays in this society. The conclusion is made that advertising becomes a part of everyday culture, impacts people’s life, contributes to formation of values system, mentality, worldview. In human mind, advertising transforms information into the image, and dictates the demands and interests, demonstrates ideals, helps formulating the goals.

Сопоставительный анализ семантики фразеологизмов немецкого литературного языка и региональных идиом

The purpose of the study is to identify similarities and differences in semantics of phraseological units of the literary German language based on the Wurst component and regional phraseological units that include words of the same root: Weißwurst, Mettwurst, Currywurst, Gelbwurst. Scientific novelty of the described approach lies in considering names of the German sausage varieties not just as hyponyms of the Wurst lexeme but as carriers of transformed meanings which reflect socio-cultural experience of representatives of various local communities. As a result, three types of regional idioms are identified and described: the ones that fully/partially coincide in meaning with idioms of the literary language, the ones that are synonymous with idioms of the literary language and the ones that have completely different meanings, expanding the idea of sausage as a national product of Germany.

“Bubbling” the Fourth Age in the Time of COVID-19

“Bubbling” the Fourth Age in the Time of COVID-19

Историко-культурное фармацевтическое наследие: концептуализация, дифференциация и содержание

Pharmaceutical heritage is a set of scientific and practical achievements of pharmaceutical activity of mankind. Historical and cultural pharmaceutical heritage is a collection of tangible and intangible evidence of the historical development of pharmaceutical science and practice, embodying a significant socio-cultural experience of humanity and preserved for transmission to future generations. Pharmaceutical and medical heritage is difficult to differentiate due to the long joint history of development and intertwining modern practices, but the separation of the professions of a doctor and a pharmacist allows us to distinguish the historical and cultural pharmaceutical heritage from the end of the XVII century. Historical and cultural pharmaceutical heritage is classified into tangible and intangible, according to functional characteristics, material historical and cultural heritage is divided into movable and immovable heritage.

ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ КУЛЬТУРНЫХ ЦЕННОСТЕЙ СТУДЕНТОВ В ПРОЦЕССЕ ОБРАБОТКИ РУССКОЙ НАРОДНОЙ ПЕСНИ

The article proposes the author's version of the in-depth work with the folk original source, which contributes to the formation of cultural values of students in the course of the Arrangement course of the teaching course Academic Choir at the Tyumen State Institute of Culture. A distinctive feature of the course is the regional component – Russian folk songs of the Tyumen region and the region are used as musical material for student work. As part of the study, we identified the following contradictions: – between the prescription of the State educational standards on interdisciplinary disciplines, the student's ability to navigate in the diversity of culture and the competences offered by the curriculum for the discipline “Arrangement”, which are focused on creating a new creative product; – between the student’s constant need for creative self-realization and the insufficiently high level of his creative skills; – between installations of legislation in the field of education for the education of the individual with a high level of education, morality, and value installations that are incorrectly laid down by the mass culture. Therefore, we position the processing of a folk song not as an end in itself, but as a means of personal involvement of the student in the culture of his people, the transmission of sociocultural experience between generations. The goal of the “Arrangement” course is to create a value attitude of students to Russian culture in the process of creative work with a folk original source (Russian folk song) by expanding the course’s objectives to interdisciplinary and research (problem-searching, creative, heuristic, etc.), activating cognitive and creative activity of students. Formation of students' value attitude to the Russian folk musical culture in the process of creative work with a folk song, we propose to carry out at the following stages: search, motivational-incentive, research, analytical, creative, performing. Through contact with the sample of Russian song and its transformation, a student's interest in his origins, his pedigree, and cultural norms in the way of life and art is awakened. The effectiveness of the formation of cultural values of students through the Russian folk song is determined under the condition of positive motivation and initiative of students to learn cultural values, subject-subject interaction between the teacher and the student, enhancing independent cognitive activity, introducing the student to artistic creativity, creating conditions for self-discovery.

Ethno-consolidating role of art in sustainable development of cross-border regions

This article explores the capacity of art in consolidation of the society on ethnic grounds. This affects the sustainability of regional development, results of the exchange of sociocultural experience between the generations of culture bearers and, and overcoming severe socioeconomic and sociopolitical problems in general. The subject of this research is the ethno-consolidating role of art. The theoretical-methodological framework of leans on the trend of ethnic art studies. The article is based not only on the theoretical consideration of the indicated vector, but also on the results of empirical research, such as expert survey of administrative employees of the cultural, art and educational institutions (cross-border regions of Russia: Altai Krai, Altai Republic, Kemerovo Region, Kazakhstan: Pavlodar and East Kazakhstan Regions, n=120); expert survey of the government officials and local self-governance that are responsible for implementation of regional and municipal programs aimed at preservation and development of ethno-national cultural assets in cross-border regions of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan (n=65). The following conclusions were formulated: 1) ethnic consolidation of culture bearers in cross-border regions can be effectively realized through the phenomena of traditional and indigenous art; 2) the current processes of assimilation of cultural values and norms, ethnic tension, intercultural dialogue, and the phenomenon of multiculturalism as a whole can blunt the effect of art upon ethnic consolidation of the society, although not affecting the pace of intergenerational interaction, in which the important role is allocated to art; 3) art carries out a consolidating role in the society based on continuity of values and norms.

Nostalgia for “Golden Age” in Soviet-era culture

The prerequisites for the study are the relevant trends in modern humanities that study the “era of nostalgia”, the “demand for the past” in the culture of different regions of the world (Z. Bauman, S. Boym, D. Lowenthal and others), and the interest of the global science in the processes that occur in Russian culture. The “taboo on nostalgia” (S. Boym) should be overcome in the Russian intellectual milieu (the consequence of revising the Soviet sociocultural experience) as a factor that introduces subjectivity into research. The purpose of the study is to identify the prospects for the comprehensive study of the mythologization of the Russian “Golden Age” and the functions of the neomyth in Russian culture of the 20th century; the goal is to define the specific features of the key stages in nostalgic mythmaking (from pre-Soviet to post-Soviet). The initial hypothesis: although different generations have their motives for seeking the ideal in the “Golden” 19th century, each stage can only be interpreted in the context of the single mythmaking process. Research methods are based on the interdisciplinary approach; the authors summarize research data in the field of literature, cultural history, and cultural sociology. The result of the analytical review in the study is the significant elaboration of the notions of the most important nostalgic “plot” of 20th-century Russian culture: 1) over the previous century, the neomyth of the Russian “Golden Age” is actualized almost continuously; 2) the latent stages of the neomyth have been the time of creative individuals’ personal searches, their fruits being later in demand by society; 3) a long cycle of the retrospective search for Russian culture ends with a complete change in the meaning-making social context in the post-Soviet era. In the conclusion, the prospect for scientific discussion is outlined.

Language in Historical Memory

The article examines the role of language in the formation and preservation of historical memory as a phenomenon of intellectual culture which ensures continuity in the historical and cultural development of the people. Embedded in linguistic models as cultural codes and social mechanisms for regulating communication processes and transmitting the socio-cultural experience of generations, historical memory preserves in the mass consciousness the socially significant information that helps strengthen the spirit of the people, solidifies its unity around the national state, and ensures the protection of the cultural heritage of multinational Russia.

A quantitative study of experienced young women by Early Stage Breast Cancer

The cells in the breast begin to grow out of control is called breast cancer. This is classified into stage zero to stage four according to the amount of severity and nature of spread. During the early stage, diagnosis of cancer and the beginning of treatments are directly affected to quality of life of the young women. Most of the women have unpleasant physical, psychological, and socio-cultural experience due to impairments and functional limitation secondary to breast cancer. The purpose is to explore the experience of the young women with early-stage breast cancer at the oncology unit in Provincial General Hospital Kurunegala. A phenomenological design was carried out to explore the experience of young women with early-stage of breast cancer. Twenty participants were purposively selected diagnosed with breast cancer within 3 to 6 months, who are attending to the oncology unit at Provincial General Hospital Kurunegala. Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics Review Committee of the same hospital. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect data and thematic analyze was used for the analysis. Three major themes were derived from the data. Major themes are severe physical discomfort due to disease condition, emotional disturbances and impaired socio-economic life. Severe physical discomfort is commonly due to pain, loss of appetite and nausea, body image changes and barriers to day to day activities. Emotional disturbances mostly have seen as a result of depression, anxiety, fear of recurrence and uncertainty about life. Lack of family support, social support and decline economic status were affected to impaired socio-economic life.

Training Future Teachers for Preschoolers' Socialization in the Interaction of Preschool Educational Establishments and Family

The article focuses on the current issues of training future educators of preschool institutions for the preschool children's socialization in the context of interaction between preschool institution and family. The research goal is to highlight the essence of the training future educators for the preschoolers' socialization in the interaction between preschool institutions and families in order to outline the content, key areas, forms and methods of this work. Methods. The research methods used were observation, abstraction, analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, systematization, generalization and modeling. The results. The conducted research allowed the author to reveal the probable reasons for scientists’ different interpretations of the concept of «socialization of the preschooler»; differentiate and logically organize the concepts related to the above, in the context of the interaction of preschool education institution and the family on the socialization of preschoolers; the purpose of professional pedagogical education is to train a competent specialist of innovative type, able to implement educational standards, apply new educational technologies, the use of appropriate tools, methods and forms of its implementation. Conclusions. Today the purpose of professional pedagogical education is to train a competent specialist of innovative type, able to implement educational standards, apply new educational technologies. The article reveals the essence of the concepts «socialization of a preschooler», «preschooler's social competence» and «interaction of preschool education institution and family». It is noted that socialization is the gradual entry of the child into the system of social relations, mastering the socio-cultural experience. The author reveals the social significance of this problem, the system of organization of preschoolers' socialization, its features in children of this age, directions, forms and methods of work. The role of the family and preschool education institution as the most important social institutions that determine the specifics of social education, the formation of a minor, the problems and opportunities for socialization of children in the family and educational institution is shown. The article offers pedagogical conditions for optimizing the professional training of students to organize the socialization of preschoolers.

SENSIBILITY AND SEMIO-CAPITALISM – A BODILY EXPERIENCE OF CRISIS IN URSULA ANDKJÆR OLSEN’S THE CRISIS NOTEBOOKS

In The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance (2012), Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi unfolds a political and clinical diagnosis of contemporary society, stating that the crisis we experience today is a permanent state of absent social autonomy and political agency. This crisis is not solely economic but is caused by semio-capitalism impacting all spheres of human life, affecting sensibility in particular—the linguistic and physical-sensuous link between the individual and the world. Taking up the term sensibility as a bodily basis of experience and as an aesthetic notion, in this article I will explore the relation between individual and collective bodies, the crisis as a suspension of change, and literature, focusing on the Danish poet Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s 2017 lunatic and fragmented novel of love and economy The Crisis Notebooks, but also with reference to some of her other work(s). I argue that the bodily experience of crisis, as expressed in this novel, leads to an inhibited social sensibility but also, paradoxically, to a radical openness towards the world. With reference to the Danish literary scholar Anne Fastrup’s interpretation of French vitalism’s idea of sensibility in The Movement of Sensibility (2007), I suggest that a more ambiguous, material notion of both a constructive and a destructive sensibility is crucial for its understanding, and hence—for an understanding of the relationship between body and crisis as expressed in The Crisis Notebooks. Finally, I suggest that an aesthetic notion of sensibility can provide a prism through which relations between today’s financial mechanisms and a sociocultural experience of crisis are rendered visible—if not sensuous—and it is from here that alternatives to the crisis can be found, felt, formulated or fabulated.

Cultural influences on face scanning are consistent across infancy and adulthood

The emergence of cultural differences in face scanning is thought to be shaped by social experience. However, previous studies mainly investigated eye movements of adults and little is known about early development. The current study recorded eye movements of British and Japanese infants (aged 10 and 16 months) and adults, who were presented with static and dynamic faces on screen. Cultural differences were observed across all age groups, with British participants exhibiting more mouth scanning, and Japanese individuals showing increased central face (nose) scanning for dynamic stimuli. Age-related influences independent of culture were also revealed, with a shift from eye to mouth scanning between 10 and 16 months, while adults distributed their gaze more flexibly. Against our prediction, no age-related increases in cultural differences were observed, suggesting the possibility that cultural differences are largely manifest by 10 months of age. Overall, the findings suggest that individuals adopt visual strategies in line with their cultural background from early in infancy, pointing to the development of a highly adaptive face processing system that is shaped by early sociocultural experience.

Этнические традиции в социокультурном пространстве Северного Кавказа

Theoretical understanding of the role of ethnic traditions in the ethnic identity formation, the organization of cultural space, the development of a methodology for their study in various socio-cultural conditions are of particular relevance in modern society. The processes of glocalization, regionalization of cultural space are aimed at preserving the uniqueness of ethnic cultures through the study and promotion of the best national traditions in material and spiritual culture. The purpose of this study is to determine the role of ethnic traditions in the cultural genesis of the peoples of the North Caucasus. The following tasks are being solved: the study of ethnic traditions as a mechanism for transferring socio-cultural experience in various historical and cultural conditions, as well as the study of the regional cultural space in the context of the communicative functions of ethnic culture. The scientific novelty of the study is provided due to the methodology of historical cultural studies, which explores both macrodynamic historical and cultural processes and core microdynamic stages of cultural formation.

Народные музыкальные инструменты в субкультуре детства

The article is concerned with the problematics of resource analysis of folk musical instruments in childhood subculture. The features and main characteristics of the childhood subculture are revealed. The sociocultural experience acquired by a child is classified, the options of musical activity and folk instruments as well as the mechanisms of their application in the childhood subculture are distinguished. The attributes of childhood lifesustaining activity are considered, folk musical instruments as the attributes of childhood life-sustaining activity and the features of their functioning are analyzed. The main diff erences and positive effects of folk musical instruments and playing them within the childhood subculture are distinguished and presented, a comparative analysis of their use in the typology of cultures is carried out. The subcultural forms of children’s interaction when playing folk instruments are presented. The key potentials that actively infl uence the formation and development of the modern childhood subculture with the use of folk instruments are identifi ed and substantiated.

Experiences of the doctoral journey: A cross-national perspective

ABSTRACT A strong body of evidence shows that doctoral student experiences are shaped by both individual factors and socio-cultural contexts. However, we know little about the differences and similarities of such experiences across different socio-cultural contexts. To contribute to the understanding on contextual and invariants of doctoral experience, we surveyed doctoral students’ key experiences in two different socio-cultural contexts: two research-intensive universities in South Africa and Finland. The results indicate that both positive and negative student experiences shape doctoral education across institutions, disciplines and national contexts. The research supports the notion of the doctorate as a socio-cultural experience ranging from individual learning through experience, to relational enculturation into the wider scholarly community. The findings provide the basis for understanding the doctoral experience as a force shaping doctoral education systems.

“Examination of Memory” and the Formation of Modern Socio-Cultural Space

This article analyses the contemporary Russian sociocultural space, exploring the degree of influence of memories of the past on modern society, the use of images of the past in the formation of actual culture. Cultural memory is a major factor in modern socio-cultural space: it contributes to the way people experience their surroundings and their identity through chosen images and artefacts of the past. Professional assessment by the experts is an important tool in understanding how cultural memory works and how it is utilized in socio-cultural experience. This article presents an attempt to reveal the mechanisms of interpretation of the content of cultural memory and the representation of its meanings by means of culture. The article discusses such problems as the process of preserving, transforming and transmitting cultural memory, as well as the possibility of humanistic knowledge in matters of ”memory examination”, analysis and forecasting of the development of the socio-cultural sphere.
 Keywords: culture, cultural memory, collective memory, commemorative practices, cultural assessment

INDIVIDUALIZATION AND SOCIALIZATION OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

Changes in the political, social and economic spheres of modern Kazakhstan society dictate the need to increase attention to the socialization of preschool children in the family and preschool organizations. The integrity of the pedagogical process is understood as the integrity of the processes of socialization and individualization of the preschool child, preservation of the child's nature and its development in culture, enrichment of individual cultural experience in the process of inclusion in the socio-cultural experience, unity of development and education. The modern pedagogical process is designed as a system of conditions that allow each child to realize individual needs and at the same time interact with the children's community. The organization of children's activities initiates the creation of children's associations in which each child performs a favorite function and simultaneously cooperates with other children. In such an educational space, the processes of socialization and individualization leading to preschool age harmoniously complement each other.