Worldview Model Research Articles

Decolonizing “the Data” of Religious Studies: A Case against the Worldview Model of Difference

Decolonizing “the Data” of Religious Studies: A Case against the Worldview Model of Difference

Роль пропаганды в популяризации и сохранении общероссийской культурной идентичности соотечественников за рубежом

Introduction. As a result of the constitutional reform carried out in 2020, the basic law of the country was supplemented with new norms. They include the provisions of Part 3 of Article 69 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which enshrine guarantees of support for compatriots living abroad. This norm introduces a new category into constitutional legal circulation – “all-Russian cultural identity”, and its preservation is fixed as one of the areas of state activity. Propaganda is interpreted as one of the elements of the mechanism for preserving this identity. The study of all-Russian cultural identity, as well as propaganda in the context of its preservation, is the goal of this work. Theoretical analysis. The term “identity” has been steadily entrenched in domestic legislation and legal science. Its content varies depending on the characteristics of the identity bearer. It has been revealed that the functions of propaganda used to preserve his / her identity depend on the characteristics of the basis for recognizing a person as a compatriot. Еmpirical analysis. The article revealed that neither ethnicity nor citizenship relations are the basis of the nationwide cultural identity of compatriots abroad. The concept under study is based on the cultural (civilizational) code of Russia as a country with a centuries-old statehood, rich history and a multinational people. Propaganda is one of the ways to spread the Russian value and worldview model. Results. The role of propaganda is to form a positive image of the future among compatriots regarding Russia. The upward constitutionalization of relations to support compatriots is due to several factors: the priority of this direction of the Russian national policy; recognition of the identity under study as a legal fact; justification of the new category as confirmation of the civilizational essence of Russia at the constitutional level.

Полиноминативность географических объектов в лингвокультурном контексте

The article attempts to analyze the linguocultural factors contributing to the phenome­non of polynominativity—multiple names for a single object. This investi­gation employs top­onyms as a case study. The exploration delves into several key factors that give rise to poly­onyms: 1) linguosociocultural factors: these factors play a pivotal role in shaping subsystems of names, encompassing both official and unof­ficial, widely used and niche terms, as well as neutral and connotatively charged expressions. 2) linguogeocultural factors: they contribute to the differentiation of objects based on culturally significant oppositions such as ‘near-far’, ‘left-right’, and subsequently transmit binary characteristics like ‘own-alien’,’ ‘good-bad’, among others. 3) linguoethnocultural factors: these factors elucidate the intricacies of the in­teraction and mutual influence of onomastic systems from different ethnic groups coexisting within the same geographical space. 4) linguopragmatic factors: these factors drive the multi­plication of onomastic units and subsystems for utilitarian purposes, including cultural con­siderations. 5) linguocognitive factors: they lead to the emergence of ‘double’ names that mir­ror individual or collective features of a particular worldview model. It is evident that these factors interact dynamically within specific historical, social, and cultural contexts. The study of the intricate interplay between these elements holds promise, and advancements in onomas­tic ethnolinguistics, coupled with developments in computational linguistics, are par­ticularly noteworthy. Despite progress, researchers tackling this thematic area are confronted with numerous unresolved questions.

INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS ON THE PAGES OF «NASH LEMKO» («OUR LEMKO»): THE UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN CONFRONTATION

The purpose of the article is to find out the peculiarities of the interpretation of the past and current state of Ukrainian-Russian relations by the authors of «Our Lemkо». The research methodology is based on the combination of principles (historicism and objectivity) and methods (philosophical, general scientific and special-historical) of scientific research, which are usual for works on the historical science. The scientific novelty of the article consists in an attempt to comprehensively reconstruct of the problems of Ukrainian-Russian relations, presented on the pages of the flagship Ruthenian periodical of the interwar period, the magazine «Nash Lemko». Conclusions. Summarizing the reconstruction of Ukrainian-Russian relations presented on the pages of «Nash Lemko», we will point out its conceptual thoughtfulness and content saturation. In the first case, the editors were concerned with the consistent affirmation of Sobornist thinking among their readers. Through this prism, Moscovia became the eternal enemy of Ukrainians, which destroyed its unity by all possible means with the aim of further physical subjugation and spiritual extermination. This worldview model was carefully substantiated by the magazine's publicists with numerous examples from the Middle Ages to modern times. They consistently proved to the reader the civilizational difference between European Ukrainians in terms of their values and the barbaric world of Russian despotism. Affirming the optimism of life among the Rusyns, who were impoverished by the troubles, the authors of «Our Lemkо» emphasized the historical invincibility of Ukrainians in this unequal and cruel struggle, based on the ethical principle of the teleological superiority of good over evil. Finally, let us point out the success of the national policy of the publishers of the Ruthenian periodical, because despite the powerful leveling influences and the lack of their own statehood, the Lemkоs mostly remained with the Ukrainian national choice.

Terminological front: «ruskiy mir» («russian world/peace») in religious and confessional rhetoric (the science of religion perception of existential choice)

The task of this article is to clarify the appropriateness and adequacy of peace-making (confessional) rhetoric in the situation of the war of aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, in particular, the meaningful correspondence of the concept of «peace» in its application or reading by the bearers of different worldview paradigms. The «russkii mir» cannot be translated either as «Russian peace» or as «Russian world». This is because the scope and content of these concepts are different. Rus (Kyiv`s Rus) — a thousand-year-old princely state with its center in Kyiv, where the ancestors of modern Ukrainians lived, baptized by Prince Volodymyr in 988. Rus is not Russia. But Muscovy adopted the name Russia to derive its historiography from Rus. «Russkii mir» actually refutes the axiological principles laid down by ancient Rus’s civilization (freedom, dignity, partnership, co-creation, mutual responsibility). «Russkii mir» destroys peace in global or any local images, trying to grab the territory it decided to own. «Russkii mir» encroaches on world domination and therefore tries to impose its rules of the game on the world, which would reshape the world structure according to the wishes of the Russian dictators. For this, «russkii mir» uses any means and institutions as a tool: the army, weapons of mass destruction, atrocities, terror, lies, propaganda, the church and peace-making rhetoric. The goal is not to restore peace, but to establish the world domination of the Russian Empire in any of its variants (Muscovy, Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Russian Federation or Orthodox Civilization). Russian Orthodox Church plays a leading role in this — it uses religious rhetoric to formu- late a worldview model of the «russkii mir», consolidates the Russian population for a war of aggression, and justifies the atrocities of the Russian military with the sacred mission of restoring the Holy Rus’. Russian Orthodox Church justifies the «civilizing mission» of the Russian troops, actually calls to protect «our Common Russian Fatherland» by killing Ukrainians on the territo- ry of Ukraine. False messianism, manichaeism, paternalism, hatred of the civilized world that lives by democratic standards and respects the dignity and freedom of the individual, Russian arrogance, conceit, supremacy and egomania — this is what Russian Orthodoxy promotes with its religious rhetoric. Therefore, if we hear calls for «peace» from the bearer of the «russkii mir»’s worldview, it actually means a demand to come to terms with all their whims, to give up one’s own identity, one’s own world, one’s own life, if they do not fit into the concept of «russkii mir».

The Myth of Social Mobility: Subjective Social Mobility and Mental Health

A common assumption is that upward mobility produces positive psychological outcomes. However, status-based identity framework and social class worldview model propose that perceived social mobility in either direction will lead to increased distress. Based on this claim, we examined relations among subjective social mobility, life satisfaction, and mental health using polynomial regression with response surface mapping. In Study 1, groups that experienced both subjective downward and upward mobility reported more depressive symptomatology than groups that remained in middle or upper social statuses in a sample of 567 adults. We did not find significant relations between subjective social mobility and life satisfaction. In Study 2, both groups that experienced subjective downward and upward mobility reported more depressive and academic distress symptomatology than groups that remained in middle or upper social social statuses in a sample of 7,598 clients from college counseling center data. The results provide insights relevant to multicultural counseling and training.

Transhumanism As An Ethical Worldview Model: Prospects For Development

In this article, the authors consider the phenomenon of transhumanism in the context of its relationship with the process of globalization. It has been established that the concept of transhumanism is usually understood as a trend that uses the achievements of science and technology for the development of a human being’s physical and mental abilities, and yet the talk is even about the transformation of human nature. Based on the results of the study, the authors consider transhumanism to be only one of the vectors for the embodiment of globalization. In addition, the study zeroes in on the concept of humanism, which, obviously, has received its modification at the present stage in the form of the concept of transhumanism and posthumanism. The authors argue that humanism and transhumanism proceed from the recognition of a person as the highest value in the natural world and in the world of culture, however, transhumanism is more radical, since it contributes not only to traditional means of improving human nature, but also to immediate application of medicine and technology to overcome some of our limitations. The authors also note that it is difficult to clearly identify its status in the contemporary society. With regard to this, the article highlights the challenges and threats facing humanity as a result of the development of science and technology, considering which, it is necessary to establish «acceptable limits» for their application in order to protect human nature and identity.

Humanitarian Crisis of Civilization in the Context of Russian Aggression: Discursive-Cultural and Mental-Worldview Aspects

There are various angles one can view the military aggression of Russia against Ukraine and the entire civilized world from: political, historical, economic and other, yet it can also be considered in a much larger framework – mental and cultural. This aspect is the least discussed in the scientific circles; however, it is impossible to understand the essence of geopolitical processes disregarding the given segment of the modern world picture. This paper deals with an analysis of the worldview model of an average citizen of the Russian Federation, and they account for about 80 percent of the ethno-demographic array; it also extrapolates intellectual reflections to the European socio-cultural space. The research revolves around such basic impact factors as language, communication, media space, and society. The whole century of constant information interventions, methodically carried out by the political and propaganda industry from the territory of Russia, resulted in the appearance of a specific mental and worldview space. Its common representative’s mentality and reality perception characteristically is invariably clouded by the following elements: the lack of trust to any other nation (we talk about cultural phenomena here), groundless self-admiration, understanding of personal helplessness, irresponsibility, following a totalitarian leader and his utopian ideas. In this realm, one can find an explanation for the low ethical level and lack conscience of the common citizen of the Russian Federation, his petty worldview, cruelty and antagonism towards the Ukrainian people. All the social-mental characteristics of the Russian nation serve to prove the deep crisis of the spiritual sphere and the agony of the "Russian world" as such. Its desperate lunges towards independent Ukraine, other post-Soviet republics, and the civilized world in general are in fact a manifestation of collective mental disorders, they contain metastases aimed at fairly marginalized segments of the Eurasian reality and make up a recurring phenomenon.
 In his research, the author relies on the interfield material in social sciences and humanities, on the analysis of communicative behavior of political leaders and representatives of the cultural and scientific elite of modern Russia, on media products of propaganda channels, on the content of social networks, etc. The article introduces the typology of the main characterological features of the modern Russia mental space.

LITERARY PROJECTION OF PANDEMIC IN MARLEN HAUSHOFER’S NOVEL «THE WALL»

The context of a historical period may provoke unexpected interpretation of this or that book because of its parallels with current social phenomena. The plot of M. Haushofer’s novel has such distinct similarities to the present reality, that it makes scientists reinterpret it. Though this literary work was published in German in 1963, it was translated into Ukrainian in 2020, that explains a small number of studies, devoted to its analysis. The number of the reviews on this novel has recently grown in English-language literary sources, emphasizing the need of reinterpretation of the novel in the context of the spread of coronavirus infection, that proves topicality of the theme of the article. The purpose of the study is to examine the specificity of a literary projection of pandemic in M. Haushofer’s novel «The Wall», identifying and analyzing literary versions of mythoscenarios in it. Yu. Vyshnytska’s concept described in her monograph «Mythological scenarios in the modern literary and publicist discourse» was chosen as a theoretical foundation of the research. The following methods of literary analysis – intertextual, semiological, psychoanalytical and poetological – were used in the course of the research. At the beginning of the novel «The Wall» there are elements of the mythoscenario of the end, based on eschatological plots. This mythoscenario in M. Haushofer’s work is a part of a dualistic model together with the mythoscenario of the beginning which is a universal worldview model. The dystopia «The Wall» can be considered an original literary projection of pandemic that is visible most distinctly in the plot of isolation, in articulation of the basic archaic opposition «life–death». The work of the Austrian author vividly visualizes it in the mythoscenarios of the beginning, the end and initiation which show diffusion of the structural contours and transgenic features – the ability of one mythoscenario to merge with another. Interpretation of these mythoscenarios allows identifying the analyzed novel as an example of neomythological literature. M. Haushofer’s dystopia opens space for literary studies of different aspects, in particular, prospects of further research can be seen in psychoanalytical investigation of the character-narrator’s state caused by isolation.

ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH ON RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS (IN THE EXAMPLE OF BELARUSIAN AND RUSSIAN RESEARCHERS’ EXPERIENCE)

The article analyzes the research carried out on the religious consciousness of the population of the republics of the North Caucasus of the Russian Federation and Belarus. Thus, in the North Caucasus, based on opinion polls, the state of mass Islamic consciousness in the region was analyzed to identify Salafi components in its content. By comparing the religious positions of the demographic groups of young people and the older generation, we identified the features and trends in the development of Salafi consciousness. The main hypothesis of the study boiled down to the fact that in the mass Islamic consciousness of the region, the Salafi consciousness is widespread to a sufficient extent, in connection with which, one could speak of the presence of a solid social base for followers of Salafism in the region. By the tasks of their research, Belarusian scientists determined the study of religious consciousness in its most comprehensive and broad understanding, setting the goal of obtaining a religious worldview model, as well as determining the factors that influence its dynamics. The hypothesis is that the degree of respondents’ religiosity forms a spectrum from declarative through weak and moderate to deep involvement.

Experiences and well-being among Indigenous former youth in care within Canada

BackgroundResearch indicates that a healthy cultural identity is associated with positive outcomes including increased self-esteem, academic achievement, and higher reports of satisfying family interactions. ObjectiveThis retrospective study explored the experiences of intergenerational trauma, cultural connections, and identity among Indigenous former youth in child welfare care of the Ontario government. Participants and settingParticipants self-identified as Indigenous (First Nations, Status and non-Status; Metis; Inuit), had a history of being in child welfare care and had never been adopted. Each participant in this research study reflected on the influence of intergenerational trauma and being in child welfare care in the development of their cultural identities. MethodsThis study utilized a blend of traditional grounded theory, constructivist grounded theory, relational worldview model and a two-eyed seeing approach. ResultsOverall findings indicate the importance of cultural connections, having a purpose and meaning in life that links to cultural identity and spirituality as critical elements in the pathways from trauma to well-being. These findings reflect Indigenous reclamations of traditional belief systems, practices, languages, and cultures in order to overcome personal experiences and problems. ConclusionsMany Indigenous communities are taking active steps to find children lost in the child welfare system, to care for these children, and to rekindle cultural identity for them. With the goals of healing, reconciliation and cultural restoration, it is imperative that child welfare agencies support the development of positive cultural identity, spirituality, and connection to cultural communities for Indigenous children, youth, and their families.

Towards a descriptive framework of the engineering ethical worldview

ABSTRACT This paper provides a novel theoretical framework of engineering ethics, specifically how engineering professional practitioners make sense of ethics. Multiple regression was applied to 2009 survey data (N=2276, 38% return) of practising engineers, to identify groups of competencies correlated with ethics. These were identified as values within an ethics worldview model. The model has two compartments. One is the development of a professional worldview, whereby professional engineers reconstruct their own values over time, and then seek to embody those in their own life. The other is an awareness of the need for professional judgement in complex decision-making. All the significant variables identified in the survey may be accommodated in this model. While the raw data (ex 2009) were dated, the method and findings help move the field forward by providing new insights into how practising engineers make sense of ethics.

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF METAMODERNISM

The beginning of the 21st century was marked by qualitative changes in the world culture and social life, causing the need for new perceptual and conceptual models of cognition to explain them. The paradigm of postmodernism, formed in the philosophy of the 20th century, had previously determined the textual model of culture with the respective semiotic, cognitive, and anthropological criteria. However, the rapid development of the industrial civilization in the early 21st century is defining new requirements for discursive and communicative practices. Metamodernism is one of such new conceptual approaches to cultural phenomena. The authors of the article analyse the works of its main representatives, which have been actively published since 2010, and identify the key elements of the philosophical framework of metamodernism: 1) a strategy for text reconstruction; 2) a representational practice of the "structure of feeling"; 3) an aesthetic precept of "metaxis". It is difficult to formulate a comprehensive concept of metamodernism based on the analysed works due to their popular presentation style; however, if defined as a critical addition to the well-known paradigms of modernism and postmodernism, metamodernism can be perceived as an alternative worldview model that has emerged in the early 21st century with its own discursive and cognitive structure, aesthetic actualization and rational explication.

Soteriological context of the image a righteous man in fictional prose of I. S. Shmelyov.

The object of this research is the embodiment of the Orthodox anthropological ideal in the works of I. S. Shmelyov. Among multiple images of a righteous man described in the literature, I. S. Shmelyov in his works features “righteousness in the world”. Dilogy “Summer of the Lord” and “Pilgrimage” is selected as an example, namely the image of Gorkin as church-going person among others. His image reflects a peculiar worldview model that reconciles the contradictions of worldly and religious life, due to the dominant of Christocentrism — the uniform principle of an Orthodox person. Through the prism of soteriological attitudes, the author traces in the image of Gorkin the embodiment of the principles of Christian morality, love for the neighbor, and orientation towards the Prototype. The main conclusions consist in development of the original concept of a church-going person, which is based on the Orthodox understanding of human. The author distinguishes between the Orthodox and the abstract spiritual, which is essential for an adequate interpretation of the applied artistic method. Based on Shmelev's reference to the fundamentals of Orthodox anthropology, the interpretation of images suggests using the theological concepts and the elements of patristic teachings. A sequential, rather than fragmentary analysis, is carried out on a specific example of the image of Gorkin. The methodological novelty of such approach lies in the establishment of a profound axiological connection between fiction and Christian anthropology, which underlies the artistic uniqueness of Shmelev's works.

Who we are impacts how we lead: Social class influence on leader identity, capacity, and efficacy.

In this chapter, the authors offer constructs for understanding the broad nature of social class and how social class identity can, and does, influence leadership identity, capacity, and efficacy. Utilizing the social class worldview model in combination with cultural mismatch theory, the authors position culturally relevant leadership learning as essential to reduce classism and advance class equity in leadership learning, development, and practice.

Метафизика киноискусства

The author of the article explores cinema art as a kind of worldview model, based on the tragic myth of Aristotle. The well-known doctrine of tragedy is the part of the doctrine of tragic myth. Both tragedy and drama strive for catharsis, that is, to purify and heal the soul. The discussion of drama as a spiritual teaching becomes extremely relevant in this regard. The hero of the drama (wider than a movie with a dramatic plot) goes on a journey to meet his eternal "I", and, therefore, to become himself. The hero may fail, but there is no other purpose for the journey or initiation.

«ЭТО КАК БЫ ДВА МИРА!»: ОВЕЩНЕННАЯ И ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСКАЯ РЕАЛЬНОСТИ

The article deals with the philosophical problem of reification in the ontological, gnoseological and axio-logical aspects. The problem of reification was discovered by Patristics, but the theoretical development of this problem was carried out in Marxist philosophy. In the process of historical formation of a human, matter «polarizes», splits into human subject reality and reificated subject reality, which act as objectively existing fictions in relation to each other. Reification of social reality, which excludes a human as a free subject, does not correspond to human essence, and therefore it acts for a human as a non-genuine reality, generating non-genuine values. Reification (together with its «otherness» — fetishism) generates trans-formed social forms, through which the concept of fact is problematized. This allows us to propose the following hypothesis: if conditional statements describing causal relations in genuinely human reality are designated as factual, then conditional statements describing causal relations in reificated subjectivity must be designated as counterfactual, and conversely. The objective existence of two mutually exclusive subject worlds places science in the situation of choosing between alternative — human or anti-human — models of reality. At the same time, a human appears as a «macrocosm» in the non-reificated human worldview model, and his human reality is constituted in this empirically valid model by a special social substratum that makes all human individuals essentially identical to each other. When describing and ex-plaining social processes, it makes sense to specify which of the two mutually exclusive realities — the reificated or the human one — is being considered in each case.

Potential for confliction in COVID-induced discourse in terms of training staff for law enforcement agencies

The purpose of this article is to construct a worldview model for a group of individuals prone to conflictive speech behaviour. This model can help law enforcement officers, including those still in training, to build an optimal communication strategy, even in unfavourable conditions. The material of the study is based on the comments in social media in respect of regional news items (TASS and Vesti-Kaliningrad press agencies). The relevant effective information engendered verbal reactions that proved to be most demonstrative for consideration and modelling. The article considers such aspects as various cognitive distortions inherent in individuals of a social medium at periods of maximum uncertainty; destructive speech strategies, manipulative strategies and manifestations of hostile rhetoric. A number of elements of the conspiratorial worldview, representing a constitutive role within the discourse in question, were considered and described.

SPATIAL CATEGORIES IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The article is devoted to an overview of the main trends in the cognitive approach to the study of spatial categories in the English language, since cognitive linguistics is an actively developing linguistic direction, in many respects determining the face of modern world linguistic science. Space belongs to the main semantic philosophical categories; without which it is impossible to build a worldview model of reality. The ability for spatial orientation is a reflection of the cognitive mechanisms underlying human perception and knowledge of the world. The categorization of space objects reflects the process of selection and value determination in accordance with human needs and interests. The material frame of reference that provides a person with a valuable perception of space is embedded in the asymmetry of the structure of his body. The difference between the upper and lower parts, front and back, right and left sides gives a person the ability to differentiate the direction of space and its extent. Conceptualization and linguistic categorization of space are determined by the conditions of human existence. The supremacy of the vertical dimension is explained by the spatial orientation of his body, characteristic of a person, under normal conditions, namely in a standing position. The semantic structures of the spatial vocabulary of the corresponding categories are dependent on conceptual structures and are built from units of conceptual structures. Since a person is characterized by upright walking, this is what the human body is oriented towards, and therefore the vertical position can be considered as prototypical, and in the language, the units denoting spatial realities and directions within the category of “vertical” have a priority meaning and are more often metaphorized. We consider the analysis of the verbalization of spatial categories in the English discourse to be a promising continuation of this research.

Development and Initial Validation of the Perceived Classism Experiences Scale

This article describes the development and initial validation of the Perceived Classism Experiences Scale (PCES), a scale created to measure experiences of classism based on the Social Class Worldview Model. In Study 1, we conducted an exploratory factor analysis on a sample of 309 participants, revealing three distinct factors: Downward Classism, Upward Classism, and Lateral Classism. In Study 2, a confirmatory factor analysis with data from a distinct sample of 341 participants provided further support for the bifactor structure of the PCES. Significant correlations with subjective social status, self-rated health, stress, state and trait anxiety, life satisfaction, and well-being further supported criterion validity of the PCES. The PCES advances on previous scales of classism, as it is theory-driven and it is not restricted to academic environments. We discuss research and practical implications of the PCES.