Seliverstova N., Zubok Yu. Religious self-identification of youth: a socio-cultural mechanism of reproduction. The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology. 2023. Vol. 26. №2. P. 135–174. DOI 10.31119 ...

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Abstract

The article theoretically substantiates the connection of religious self-identification with the reproduction of the socio-cultural self-regulation mechanism in young people’s lives. The reproductive potential of religious self-identification in relation to the unconscious and the conscious, traditional and modern in the mechanism of self-regulation has been studied. The results of an empirical analysis of data on the features of the reproduction of the elements of this mechanism and the corresponding semantic patterns in the groups of believers, unbelievers and undecided are presented. A three-dimensional correlation analysis was carried out taking into account the age differentiation of young people, which determines their socio-psychological and socio-cultural specifics. It was revealed that the reproduction of socio-cultural components, firstly, occurs in the logic of simple, expanded, or narrowed reproduction, and secondly, it is not always determined by religious identity. Religious self-identification uniquely reproduces only archetypes and loses its unambiguous connection with other elements of the unconscious — mental traits, habits, stereotypes. The reproduction of national character features and habitus significantly correlates with religious self-identification only in groups of pronounced carriers and not all, but some orientations. The reproduction of stereotypes is more significantly associated with age than with religious identification. In the reproduction of modern traits that have become the character features as the result of global culture influence, their connection with religious identification is noticeably leveled. And in the reproduction of the meanings of the base culture and subculture, the non-linearity and hybridization of value orientations and meaning compositions were fully manifested. The presence of religious self-identification supports the reproduction of traditional, but does not guarantee the weakening of the influence of modern culture on the youth. In the group of believing youth, there is a simple reproduction or a tendency towards a narrowing reproduction of traditional elements and a simple or a tendency towards an expanded reproduction of modern components of culture.