Sociocultural attitudes in the self-regulation of youth's ideas about the future

The article contains the results of the third stage of the study, revealing the stability and differentiating effect of habitus (mental and modern features of national character, life positions) and migration attitudes on defining the goals that are significant for the future of the country. Based on the comparative analysis of two-dimensional distributions using the χ² statistics, it was revealed that both habitus, ascending to mental traits (love of the fatherland, mercy and compassion, love of neighbor), traditional life positions (collectivism and selflessness), and habitus, genetically associated with modern traits of national character (the desire to defend human rights, openness to everything foreign), and an active life position are stable. Habitus with a traditional value basis sharply divides the expressed carriers of the attitude and those who deny its presence in their choice of goals. Traditional attitudes underlie the construction of a more definite subjective reality of the future than modern ones. The most obvious differentiating effect is recorded in the links between the attitude of love for the fatherland and the social significance of a strong family for the future of the country; love for one's neighbor, mercy and compassion, honor, dignity, selflessness and accessible qualified health care. The semantic content of these attitudes is converted into care for neighbors and empathy for those far away, mainly concerns the satisfaction of the vital needs of health and life. They are also joined by the modern attitude of defending human rights in relation to a comfortable living space as a parameter of the image of the future. The least stable in regulating ideas about the goals of the country's future were shown by the traditional attitude of suspicion towards foreigners and modern attitudes towards the country as a place of residence, demonstrative compassion, rational and pragmatic attitude towards others and individualism. In this case, unformed attitudes have a regulating effect, which explains their instability. The attitudes of young people towards emigration, compared to attitudes towards sedentarization and internal migration, are characterized by a devaluation of key socially significant goals and values (strong family, work, education), but greater support for an active civil society as the most complete expression of agency, the possibility of real influence on the political process and making political decisions.

youth, sociocultural attitudes, habitus, ideas about the future