Zubok Yu.A., Chuprov I.V. Cultural Life and Cultural Practices of Young People in Small Towns: Features of Self-Regulation. Knowledge. Understanding. Skill, 2020, No. 3, pp. 140-156.

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Abstract

The article examines the features of cultural activities of young people in small towns. The authorsconduct a comparative analysis of cultural lifestyles and cultural practices of small town residents andyouth in general.The theoretical basis of the analysis is the authors’ concept of socio%cultural self%regulation ofyouth life. Cultural life, which is one of the aspects of a person’s social life, is considered as a specialform of organization and regulation of their life activity. The specificity of cultural life and culturalpractices in it is determined by the semantic perception of culture and regulated by the semantic atti%tudes that are formed in different types of culture (basic and youth subcultures). They are sources ofidentity formation and determine the orientation and specific features of the cultural life of youngpeople. The combination of different cultural bases — basic and subcultural — and their use in theanalysis of the cultural life of young people makes it possible to identify the connection between va%rious semantic projections and the peculiarities of the cultural life and cultural practices of youngpeople in small towns.The empirical analysis is based on the results of a sociological study conducted in 2017 represen%ting Russian young people aged 15 to 29. The authors demonstrate the age differences of cultural prac%tices in the structure of leisure activities of young people in a small town, involvement in activity formsof culture, and their difference from young people in general.A special place in the article is occupied by the section devoted to the self%regulation of the cul%tural life of young people in a small town. An analysis of the relationship between of young people’slife%purpose values and their attitude to culture is carried out. On the ground of the previously estab%lished and tested typology of cultures, the influence of their characteristic semantic attitudes on theperception of culture is analyzed. A conclusion is made about the extremely contradictory pheno%menon of culture in the minds of young residents of small towns and about the ambiguous influence ofdifferent cultural attitudes on the cultural life in a small town. The findings are substantiated about thecorrelation of terminal and instrumental meanings in young people’s cultural life.

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