Mental Concept of Professional Identification in Youth: Part II

Abstract

The article introduces a cultural and historical pattern of professional identification in young people of Russian mentality. Some national features of professional identification can be characterized as non-obvious due to the multi-structural and multi-vector civilizational orientations of the Russian state. The list of obvious axiological national characteristics includes collectivism, risk aversion, high power distance, sacredness of authorities, relief, mercy, religion-induced compassion, and violations of rules. Phenomenologically speaking, national mentality is a dynamic foundation formed by a set of axiological, cognitive, motivational, and behavioral determinants shared by most members of a particular cultural and historical community. It manifests itself as a broad continuum of political, socio-economic, and cultural conditions that are reflected in formal and informal institutions. Deep cultural structures define the collective and individual actor of professional identification: they fix the results of interiorization and mediation. They manifest themselves as social projections on the education system in its cultural, historical, social, legal, and economic relations. National mentality sets the vector of preferences for the subject, content, professional activity, employment, and working conditions. It makes it possible to analyze the intentions of optants regarding the development of the nomenclature and structure of professional skills during the civilizational shift. The shift is happening in the industry and technology but it aggregates axiological, motivational, and cognitive attitudes of citizens to the standards of collectivism or individualism, as well as to Western, Eastern, or mixed behavioral patterns.