Civil Patriotism Groups in Regional Communities in the South of Russia

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of the article is to study groups of civil patriotism and to highlight the features of their civil-Patriotic practices in local communities in the South of Russia.
 Methodology: The sociological investigation utilized quantitative and subjective strategies, just as techniques for hypothetical understanding of the acquired experimental information. The basis of the scientific study of common nationalism bunches in Russia in the South of Russia was a lot of wellsprings of experimental data, including the aftereffects of a sociological report directed by an individual poll "up close and personal" in five subjects of the Russian Federation in the South of Russia.
 Result: The results of the sociological study made it possible to distinguish two social groups in regional communities – youth and the "over 60" generation, which are currently the social basis for the development of civic patriotism, whose representatives are characterized by a desire for active social action for the good of the fatherland and its people, participation in civil practices aimed at protecting social interests, civil rights and freedoms, as well as readiness for civil liability for their deeds and actions both in the field of professional activity and in everyday life.
 Applications: This research can be used for universities, teachers, and students.
 Novelty/Originality: The results of a sociological study show that in local communities in the South of Russia, no more than 10% of the population can be classified as civil patriotism groups.

The main agents of the formation of patriotic practices among youth in southern Russia (based on the results of sociological surveys)

“…It is explored in a significant number of works in different areas including the consideration of the regional specifics in the development of patriotic processes in the youth of southern Russia. In particular, this issue is considered by a group of Rostov scholars (VERESHCHAGINA et al, 2020;VOLKOV et al, 2018;LUBSKY et al, 2018) Foreign scholars stress the risks of the idea of patriotism becoming distorted when monopolized by a social group for the realization of its own goals which creates restrictions on the freedom to criticize and develop other ideas and transforms patriotism into nationalism with a pronounced rejection of other "alien" ideas (COHEN;NUSSBAUM, 1996;VIROLI, 1997;BLATBERG, 2000;PRIMORATZ, 2002;CALHOUN, 2004). Such phenomena are indeed present in the modern world which poignantly raises the question of the essence of patriotism, its truth and falsity, and the overall evolution in the course of the historical transformation of public consciousness (DUSTIN, 2005;SCHATZ, 1994) including Russian public consciousness (KHALII, 2016;.…”

“…Patriotic practices in Russia and its regions focus on the formation of patriotic values and attitudes among young people, as evidenced by the nature of patriotic organizations as the vast majority of them are youth-oriented. It should be noted that Russian youth, same as the country's population in general, consider themselves patriotic (VERESHCHAGINA et al, 2020) and this positive dynamic has generally been stable over the past decade. However, VTsIOM data show that in the past 20 years, the number of Russians who do not consider themselves "unconditional" patriots, i.e.…”

Formal and Informal Patriotic Practices in the Youth Environment of the Multi-Ethnic South of Russia

“…В фокус внимания ученых попали также проблемы, связанные с несформированностью гражданского патриотизма среди молодежи Юга России (Верещагина, 2018) в мировоззренческих ориентациях и установках молодых жителей данного региона * . Как отдельный сюжет в логике изучения патриотизма, гражданственности и солидарности на Юге России, а также выявления групп гражданского патриотизма, патриотические практики становились предметом исследования ростовских ученых (Lubsky, 2018;Vereshchagina, 2020).…”