DOI: 10.36871/hon.202003016
Authors
N. A. Vinokurova
Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
O. M. Tabachnikova
University of Central Lancashire, Preston, England
Abstract
The article aims to trace the cultural continuity of generations in Russian context by studying
the interaction between literary preferences of modern students and their moral choice. Special
attention is paid to the role of humanitarian education in forming both literary taste and
moral values of young people.
Our approach includes both sociological and cultural methods. The article analyzes the
results of a sociological study conducted in 2019, where the semiotics of behaviour in hypothetical
conditions of setting up one's own business by young specialists is superimposed on
the literary priorities of the respondents.
Our hypothesis is that, despite the processes of globalization, national cultural and moral
values that originated in the XIth century in the ideas of Metropolitan Hilarion, who proclaimed
the internal law above the external, continue to live and largely shape the worldview
of modern Russian youth. This philosophical heritage is transmitted, in particular, through
humanitarian education and especially through the works of classical Russian literature, as
shown by the analysis of the results of our sociological research. The article also outlines directions
for further development of the topic we have studied.
Keywords
cultural continuity, moral values, Russian students, sociological survey, classical Russian literature, economics and culture, law, justice, mercy
