Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2015 8 (9)

Authors

Pavlov, Aleksander P.

Contact information

Pavlov, Aleksander P.:Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia;E-mail:

Keywords

modernization; social reproduction; social order; human capital; social ethoses

Abstract

The subject of the present paper is social ethoses of the Russian society as one of the most important institutions of modernization in contemporary Russia. The author analyzes the problem of preservation and reproduction of social ethoses and their integration in the modernization process, peers into the specificity and dynamics of ethoses, the reasons for their “decay”. Social ethoses are regarded as historically formed imperatives and moral codes of behavior embodied in the behavioral styles of different people. At the same time the author shows that ethoses cannot be reduced to a set of rules and regulations, as well as educational and training practices. Social ethoses are formed in the “root” (primordial) living conditions. One of the main objectives of this paper is to examine these conditions, as well as their interaction with the societal (political) mechanisms in the modernization of society. The author reckons that the success of the modernization depends not only on technological and economic factors, but to the same extent – on factors “responsible” for the actualization and reproduction of human potential qualities. It concerns, above all, special ontological institutional practices, as well as “ethos” environment in which the human potential is updated and reproduced in the form of work ethic, “participational” consciousness, trust in others, power, and finally in a taste for life. In this paper the author does not seek to study the processes of modernization in Russia comprehensively. The author rather focuses on the nature and structure of social ethoses in Russia, the causes of their decay and methods of their resuscitation in the present conditions, taking into account the tasks of modernization. Special attention is paid to the study of the youth’s ethoses as young people represent essential, qualified, intellectual resources to ensure success in the implementation of modernization projects

Pages

1803-1815

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/19792

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