Sociocultural reproduction of communicative bases of cohesion in youth environment: gender aspect
Research Article
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Seliverstova N.A., Zaytseva A.A. 2025. Sociocultural reproduction of communicative bases of cohesion in youth environment: gender aspect — Sociologicheskaja nauka i social’naja praktika. Vol. 13. No. 2. P. 114-141. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/snsp.2025.13.2.6 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The article presents the results of multidimensional analysis of sociocultural reproduction of cohesion by youth. On the basis of the concept of sociocultural mechanism of self-regulation archetypes and traits of national character are identified as regulators of reproduction. From the position of A. Schutz’s phenomenological approach the communicative competences are defined as indicators of cohesion/disunity. The gender aspect is conditioned by empirical verification of sociocultural differences between young men and women. On the basis of three-dimensional data analysis using χ2 statistics, the most significant regulators of reproduction of communicative bases of cohesion in gender groups were established: archetypes of generational continuity, goodness, idealization of the past and family harmony; mental traits: love of neighbor; mercy, willingness to help others, love for the fatherland; modern traits: the desire to defend human rights, pity, expressed in the desire to demonstrate sympathy. Archetypes in comparison with the traits of national character manifested as more complex regulators: some of them not only increase the indicators of cohesion, but also reduce the signs of disunity. In these cases, the connection between the meaning of the archetype, its main idea and the meaning of communicative competence is determined. This semantic connection is more peculiar to women than to men. The traits of national character, forming one type of in the reproduction of cohesion, set more significant and sharp boundaries of differentiation between those who share and those who do not share them in gender groups. The mental trait “honor and dignity” and the modern trait “rationalism” stood out as “male” regulators of reproduction of communicative competences. Archetypes and traits of national character reproduce to a greater extent in the youth environment communicative bases of cohesion than competences of protection of individual’s interests.
Keywords:
youth, socio-cultural reproduction, cohesion, disunity, communicative competences, gender
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Received: 21.03.2025
Accepted: 24.06.2025
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Seliverstova, N. A. and Zaytseva, A. A. (2025) ’Sociocultural reproduction of communicative bases of cohesion in youth environment: gender aspect’, Sociologicheskaja nauka i social’naja praktika, 13(2), pp. 114-141. doi: https://doi.org/10.19181/snsp.2025.13.2.6.
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