ETHNOCULTURAL SOCIALIZATION AS A FACTOR IN THE FORMATION OF RUSSIAN IDENTITY

Abstract

Ethno-cultural socialization is considered as one of the key factors ensuring the effective formation of civic identity. Immediately before starting the study of the main subject, the key features of the current socio-cultural situation in Russia and the world are revealed. Based on their analysis, the necessity of forming a Russian identity among the younger generation and the importance of implementing one of its conditions – the ethno-cultural socialization of students is proved. Further attention is paid to the disclosure of the basics of this process and to the study of the main problems associated with the person’s ethno-cultural socialization in the modern multicultural environment conditions. The paper studies the role that education, based on traditional ethnic values, plays in the process of solving such problems. The issues related to the influence of ethno-cultural socialization on the establishment of the relationship between ethnic and civic identities are studied.