Generational Differences in the Dynamics of Patriotic Values

Abstract

The article analyzes data from surveys of 2005 and 2012 involving two generations of Tolyattians: high school students and their parents. It examines the dynamic of patriotic values. The social conditions of life are postulated as essential indicators accounting for generational differences in the views of Tolyattians.

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Generational Differences in the Dynamics of Patriotic Values

Notes

English translation © 2015 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, from the Russian text © 2014 the author. “Pokolencheskie razlichiia v dinamike patrioticheskikh tsennostei (na primere g. Tol'iatti),” Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia, 2014, no. 3, pp. 45–51. A publication of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. The article was prepared in the framework of the state assignment “The Reform of the Single-Industry City Under the Conditions of the Modernization of Russian Society (based on a sociological analysis of the City of Tolyatti” no. 6.1484.2011). Irina Viktorovna Tsvetkova is a doctor of philosophical sciences and a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Tolyatti State University. Translated by Kim Braithwaite. Translation reprinted from Sociological Research, vol. 54, no. 1. DOI: 10.1080/10610154.2015.1068608

^1. It turned out later that the list we proposed, consisting of sixteen statements, coincided largely with the criteria of military-patriotic training as formulated by V.I. Lutovinov (2008).

^2. To a large extent the support of this “nucleus” was the objective of the draft of the federal law (prepared in 2011) “On the Patriotic Training of Citizens of the Russian Federation” (FZ 2011).

^3. In publishing this material, the editors considered it essential to focus readers’ attention on the law signed by Russian Federation president Vladimir V. Putin on July 3, 2013. It states that males who have evaded service in the military are prohibited forever from being hired to work in bodies of state and municipal service. The restriction does not apply to men who have not been called up for military service for valid reasons, such as illness, the possession of an academic degree, and so on. The new law is also retroactive. It calls for dismissing from state bodies all employees who, without valid cause, lack a military card indicating that they have gone through military service. The law went into effect as of January 1, 2014.—Eds.