Scripts And Simulacra In Formation Of The Russian Civic Identity

Abstract

Identification and substantiation of sociocultural factors in citizen socialization updates the concept design of sociocultural causality in formation of school student civic identity, adequate to the modern sociocultural practice, assuming substantiation and development of a structural and functional model of social mandate for the content of school student civic identity in Russia. Results of this research identified and substantiated sociocultural archetypes (mythologemes) of the Russian society; features of the Russian mentality; definition of identity scripts and sociocultural simulacra in socialization of a Soviet person; identity scripts of the Soviet society; crisis symptoms in identity model of the Soviet society; sociocultural factors typical of socialization of a modern Russian citizen; crisis symptoms in socialization of a modern child; new sociocultural simulacra in socialization; succession in identity scripts of the Russian society; crisis of the sociocultural simulacra of the Russian society. Risk factors typical of the civic identity in the modern Russian society have been determined. Identification and substantiation of scripts and sociocultural simulacra in formation of Russian civic identity in school students assumes correction of commemorative practices and territories, revision of leading models (paradigms) of civic identity formation in school students, identification and substantiation of educational patterns and techniques applicable to formation of civic identity in school students.