Russian Mentality in Socio-Cultural Space

This article is devoted to the problem of determining the specifics of the Russian mentality as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Geopolitically located between East and West, Russia represents a complex mix of different patterns, manifested in its cultural landscape. The distinctive features of national character, formed under the influence of external and internal factors and entrenched in the process of historical development are clearly manifested in the mentality of Russian people.Crisis of national identity caused by the processes of globalization and in-creasing migration flows led to the emergence of identification mechanisms through which the individual determines his place in the sociocultural space.Despite the originality of Russian civilization, it can’t stay away from cul-tural contacts and borrowings. The new models of post-Soviet chronotope symbolize the splitting of the former space, so the study of the worldview transgression, manifested in the specifics of Russian mentality is not just relevant, but vital for understanding the cultural situations of the past, the present and forecasting the future.Using cultural-historical, cultural-anthropological and socio-philosophical approaches, the authors analyze Russian mentality and its transformation in the modern sociocultural space.The author's contribution is the development of an interdisciplinary research approach combining the analysis of significant characteristics of Russian culture with mental attitudes aimed at dominating the emotional component in social practice, setting sacralization of state power and paternalism, traditionalism of the domestic way of life, openness to dialogue with other cultures. The specifics of the Russian mentality is interpreted taking into account the ontological and historical basis, going to the modern level of understanding the problem.

ментальность, ментальные установки, культура, картина мира, культурная самоидентификация, общественное сознание, социокультурное пространство, mentality, mental attitudes, culture, cultural worldview, cultural identity, social consciousness, socio-cultural space

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