Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2011 4 (11)

Authors

Semyonova, Alexandra A.

Contact information

Semyonova, Alexandra A. : Siberian Federal University , 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041 Russia , e-mail:

Keywords

methodology of cultural research; applied research in culture study; associative experiment; " series of thematic associations"; concept; the concept of "State"; the concept of "State" in Russian culture of the early 21st century; the concept of "State" in the culture of the Krasnoyarsk students

Abstract

The article presents the results of the investigation of the concept State in Russian culture of the XXIth century. The article is based on the terms of scientific research, according to which investigation of the concept is a multi-level process that includes elaboration of etymological material, history of the name of the concept in the national culture, content-analysis of significant texts that defined the development of the concept in the national culture, as well as applied research. The applied research of the concept may use the methods of psychological and social sciences - focus groups, in-depth interviews, experiments and other methods. This article presents the results of the last phase of the analysis of the concept of State in Russian culture. In this case the psycholinguistic method - an associative experiment - was used as applied techniques for the study of the concept. In 2009, in an experiment for understanding of the concept of State in modern Russian culture there were interviewed more than 200 students of Siberian Federal University, studying at humanitarian specialties: Arts, cultural studies, jurisprudence, philosophy, Psychology, foreign languages, advertising. The article also describes the results of an experiment with the wordstimulus State (gosudarstvo in Russian) that were received in 1994 by the authors of the Russian associative dictionary, which allows us to state the changes in the conceptual views on the State in the Russian mentality that have occurred within the fifteen-year period. Moreover, in the text there were identified constants in the understanding of the State in Russian national culture and actual historic changes. For the analysis of the concept of State in Old Russian culture there was previously conducted etymological analysis of the name of the concept that appeared in Russian culture in the 14th century, as well as the study of letters of Tsar Joann Vasilyevich the Terrible to Prince Andrei Vasilyevich Kurbsky.

Pages

1526-1542

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/2563

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