Worldview in the conditions of digitalization of the state

The thematic issue of the "Journal of Political Research" offered to the reader is entirely devoted to the problems of the worldview phenomenon. The crisis of the existing world order, international tension, the turbulence of economic and socio-political processes especially actualize the theme of the role of values, identity, traditions, worldview pictures in the formation of social harmony, solidarity, social consolidation, the establishment of sustainable, creative and effective forms of relationships between man, society and the state in modern Russia. Therefore, one of the tasks of the thematic portfolio of the issue was to initiate discussion of the above issues in the domestic academic community. The authors of the issue proposed to consider various aspects of the chosen problem: the perception of basic values, factors and structures of Russia's socio-historical development; communication foundations of the modern worldview; aspects of ideological construction; the concept of worldview in public discourse; worldview and political and economic features, risks of digitalization of the state; political absenteeism among students; experience of the Soviet ideocracy. It is noteworthy that among the articles there are works both conceptually oriented, offering explanatory models of existing processes, and empirically based studies. This specificity is determined by the seriousness of the value, civilizational and geopolitical challenges facing our country. The involvement of the academic community in the discussion and understanding of the axiological sphere is strategically important in order to clearly understand and determine the system of Russia's worldview coordinates.

Worldview problems in modern academic discourse: reflections on the thematic number

Fedorchenko

2022

Political Absenteeism as a Part of the Worldview of Student Youth in Moscow

Matyuhin

Davydova

2022

The article examines the factors influencing the non-active participation of Moscow students in the political life of society. It is noted that, as a rule, passive and active political absenteeism is distinguished in the worldview of the capital's youth. The results of the study conducted by the authors showed that the majority of respondents are interested in political events in the country and the capital, but only a small part of them purposefully follow the changes and dynamics of political life in Moscow and Russia. The Internet as the main source of information of the capital's students, other popular channels provide many opportunities to gain the necessary knowledge about politics in a digital society, but a large information flow and its lack of consistency, and often frankly "fake", distorted information do not allow students to fully understand various aspects of political life, respondents often demonstrate the superficiality of their political views. The purpose of our work is to study the nature of political absenteeism in the worldview of Moscow students. The consideration of the problem was based on the results of an initiative targeted political and sociological study among students of three Moscow universities conducted through the Internet platform Google Forms. A sociological survey in the form of an online questionnaire was chosen as the most representative method of collecting empirical data. The sample is a target, quota by gender (N=210). To analyze the results obtained, the following general scientific methods were used: description, analysis, synthesis, classification. The analysis of the survey results showed that municipal elections arouse the least interest among respondents, federal elections are the greatest, but at the same time every third respondent is subject to absenteeism. Among the main reasons was the lack of confidence in the institution of elections, as well as the predictability of their results. The upcoming presidential elections of the Russian Federation in 2024 arouse considerable interest among students. The respondents' protest potential was also studied. The majority of respondents prefer conventional forms of protest and have a sharply negative attitude to various manifestations of extremism. The novelty of the study is to identify the features of the manifestation of absenteeism of student youth in a megalopolis. The prospect of further research is to consider the dynamics of the attitude of students to political participation, as well as regional differences in the types and manifestations of absenteeism in the worldview of the younger generation of Russia.

Value and worldview foundations of the perception of the modern Russian state by young people in the context of global instability

Shmeleva¹,

Shablov²

2023

The article is devoted to the study of the worldview of modern youth as a key element of perception, setting the framework for perceiving reality, through the prism of which there is a perception and understanding of what is happening and acting as the ideological and semantic core of the image of the state. The authors consider the worldview in the system (triad) of the concepts of «worldview - image – perception», which make up the conceptual scheme of the article and are combined by a single perceptual mechanism. The authors focus on the dynamic nature of the phenomenon under study, the factors of its formation and modification in conditions of global instability, proxy wars, modern challenges and threats. The purpose of this article was to study the system of ideas, meanings and values, evaluative judgments of youth regarding the modern Russian state, the mechanism and factors of their formation in a spatial-temporal dimension. The conclusions of the article are based on the materials of three research sections (2019, 2021 and 2022), revealing the structural and meaningful features of the worldview of youth, the dynamics and trends of its development at the current stage. Through a cross-sectional analysis of survey data and an associative test, a generalized image of the modern Russian state, its value-worldview core, characteristics of social representations, as well as the general estimated background of perception were revealed. The political worldview of modern youth is characterized by a general positive orientation, pragmatism, sobriety and adequacy of assessments of the situation, risks and challenges, a vision of urgent problems, a rational and critical perception of the modern state and at the same time a mismatch of its elements, leading to a violation of the integrity of the worldview.