Features of the national identity of modern students of vocational education

Abstract

The issue of national identity remains relevant to this day and will continue to be so due to the dynamism of society, and as a consequence of the phenomenon itself. Therefore, the article considered the issue of national identity among modern youth. We were interested to find out whether there are features of national identity among modern students at the college of the University of Synergy, Moscow. The study was conducted in the form of a survey. The research of Soviet and Russian sociologist Lev Dmitrievich Gudkov on the structure and nature of national identity in Russia was taken as the basis of this study. According to L.D. Gudkov, the modern (1999) structure of national identity was formed during the reign of L.I. Brezhnev, it was superimposed on the existing structure of imperial Russia. Thus, the structure of national identity (according to L.D. Gudkov) included: the Soviet past, family ties, ethnic solidarity, religiosity, informal relations, material interests, doublethink, etc. As a result of the conducted research, the peculiarities of the national identity of students of vocational schools were determined. These features can be divided according to several criteria, such as: national traits and peculiarities (taking into account individual ones), personal qualities (including individual ones), symbolic, historical, spiritual, value and cultural components. The element of politics in the context of life guidelines was also considered.