Siberian Federal University 
- Supplementary material
- Application 1 (.pdf, 480 KB)Application 2 (.pdf, 480 KB)
- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2010 3 (1)
- Authors
- Nemirovskiy, Valentin G.
- Contact information
- Nemirovskiy, Valentin G. : Siberian Federal University; 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041 Russia, e-mail:
- Keywords
- mass consciousness; mass unconsciousness; the meaning of life; attitude to death; attitudes; postnonclassic sociology; universal approach
- Abstract
A highly significant feature to describe any social culture is attitude of the people towards two «eternal» problems: the meaning of life and the meaning of death. These concepts serve as basic characteristics for the level of spiritual and social development of a society. In modern Russia, as well as in any other society in crisis, most people try not to think about these problems and focus their main attention on daily needs. Moreover, the rapid change in dominant values which occurred in Russia at the end of the XX century led to social anomia. All that has rapidly made difficulties for peoples adequate understanding of the meaning of life, and, correspondingly, changed their attitude to death. The paper deals with the research of sociocultural specifics of Siberian residents ideas of the meaning of life and attitude to death on the basis of postnonclassic approach in sociology. The application of postnonclassic approach allowed to conclude that according to our empiric study findings the level of spiritual and moral development of Russian society has substantially deteriorated for the last 15 years.
- Pages
- 53-68
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/1538
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