INTERACTION OF CULTURAL AND CIVILIZATIONAL IDENTITY OF THE POPULATION OF BORDER REGIONS OF RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

Valentin P. Babintsev, Viktor A. Sapryka, Oleg V. Bykhtin, Olga V. Pastyuk

Valentin P. Babintsev, DSc in Philosophy, Head of Chair of Social Technologies, Belgorod State National Research University, Pobedy St., 85, 308015 Belgorod, Russia. E-mail: babintsev@bsu.edu.ru

Victor A. Caprica, PhD in Sociology, Associate Professor, Belgorod State National Research University, Pobedy St., 85, 308015 Belgorod, Russia. E-mail: sapryka@bsu.edu.ru

Oleg V. Bakhtin, PhD in Sociology, Associate Professor, Belgorod State National Research University, Pobedy St., 85, 308015 Belgorod, Russia. E-mail: bykhtin@bsu.edu.ru

Olga V. Pastuk, PhD in Pedagogy, Associate Professor, Northeastern State University, Port St., 13, 685000 Magadan, Russia. E-mail: pastyuk@ su.edu.ru

Theory and history of culture

2017

Vol. 43

Pp. 9–23

June 30, 2016

March 15, 2017

316.73

71.4; 60.524

The pace of modern social and political reforms in the Russian-Ukrainian frontier necessitated a detailed investigation of the processes of transformation of the cultural and civilizational identity. Identity Transformation of the former Soviet Union was caused by three interrelated processes: de-Sovietization, globalization as well as parallel fragmentation and integration of identity. The specifics of the transformation of identity in the border regions of Russia and Ukraine is determined by the barrier, the contact and integration of functions of new borders, as well as cultural and historical community areas. The results of their own sociological research allowed to allocate an important degree of overestimation in the transcendent self-perception among population of the border regions, compared with residents of inland areas. External openness of the borderlands causes the emergence of the frontier, which can be represented as a spatial invisible line, giving way to the common identity of the population surpassing national boundaries. However, according to the expert survey, the population of the Russian borderlands relates itself in cultural and civilizational terms with Ukraine more than the inhabitants of Ukrainian border with Russia.

cultural and civilizational identity, border regions of Russia and Ukraine, Frontier and Interaction identities.

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